“It is inexcusable that people seeking help for addiction, disability, and poverty on council websites can be profiled by private companies,” he said. Johnny Ryan, Chief Policy Officer at Brave, told Decrypt, at the time. “Because of the nature of these sites, this can reveal very sensitive characteristics about a person’s financial circumstances, and health,” Dr. And it argued that Google runs the systems behind the scenes of the Council’s websites, “giving it the power to know what virtually anyone in the UK views on council sites.”
Earlier this month, Brave published a report showing that over 400 councils in the UK have allowed at least one private company to track how visitors use its websites, and sell that information for profit. Nevertheless, Brave’s war against Google continues. But it hasn’t made a dent in the market share of browsers: Chrome holds 64.1% of the market share, according to data metrics site Statcounter, which doesn’t name Brave on its list of top browsers. In December, it reported 10 million monthly users, a four percent increase from the previous month. Unlike Google, which makes the bulk of its money from advertisers and doesn’t distribute profits to users, Brave rewards users for watching advertisements in its Basic Attention Token, and doesn’t track user activity by default.īrave is also far less popular than Google Chrome. That would, of course, be in Brave’s interests: Brave is a competitor to Google. Thus, Brave calls upon authorities to regulate Google, which it believes would remedy all of those issues. “The bundling of consent in the manner described by the CMA infringes some or all of the GDPR requirements of transparency, fairness, accountability, and purpose limitation in data protection law,” Brave wrote. The Brave browser wants to bring privacy back to the Internet.
But if it wasn’t able to treat the data in this way, it would struggle to keep its market share. Google, argues Brave, has the ability to combine all of its data however it likes, with no regulation from the CMA, and use that data for profit.
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