Brave for Mac is the brainchild of Brendan Eich (co-founder of the Mozilla project). It is an ultra-secure open source web browser based on the Chromium/Blink engine that is designed to block website trackers and remove intrusive internet ads. In doing so, he will replace them with advertising sold by the Eicha company.

The browser also aims to improve your online privacy by providing less data to advertisers. This is achieved by targeting web ads through the analysis of users’ browsing history (anonymously). Brave for Mac prefers to keep 15% of ad revenue, pay content publishers 55%, ad partners 15%, and (good) give 15% to browser users. You, the user, can then donate to bloggers and other web content providers through a micropayment system.

Brave for Mac was designed specifically to block ads and trackers that slow down your browsing speed, waste your bandwidth, and try to access your personal data. Developers want to serve tailored, clean ads to help fund website owners and other Brave users.

Brave for Mac comes with several handy security tools built in to help protect your privacy. For example, with its HTTPS Everywhere integration, Brave ensures that your connections to websites are always as secure as possible. The browser also blocks tracking pixels and tracking cookies, and you can also set your default search engine to Duck Duck Go instead of Alphabet’s default system.

Overall, Brave for Mac is a really fast web browser with a clean, stripped-down interface that’s really easy to use and easy to navigate the web with. After testing, we were able to navigate to our favorite websites in almost no time without any hiccups. The security tools are top notch and the fact that you can help the developers by giving them back to the community is a real bonus. All in all, Brave for Mac is definitely worth a try.

If you are looking for an alternative, you can try Avast Secure Browser.

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