The Ledger

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Disclosure
Eich: A Brave vendor shared user data with Experian without consent
“We have a vendor at Brave that has information on people. It shared it with Experian. We didn't know this was happening. I don't know if there's a privacy law that was breached. We believe their privacy policy was breached by their own action or their setting …”
Brendan Eich Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 43:10 The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
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Eich tried to build a WebKit-based browser at Mozilla with Apple engineers
“And I actually talked at one point with Dave Hyatt about doing this. But I couldn't recruit them away from Apple, and I tried to get Hewitt as well, and it would have been a WebKit-based Mozilla browser, but it was too risky. I couldn't get the talent I needed…”
Brendan Eich Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 49:03 The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
Disclosure
Brave is developing Themis, a zero-knowledge ad verification system on Solana
“So our next generation ad system, which is aiming at Solana is called Themis. It uses a black box accumulator in the browser to build up an authentic, cryptographically secure ad performance set of numbers that can then be put into a zero knowledge proof syste…”
Brendan Eich Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 1:10:01 The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
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Brave agreed to make Solana default for agnostic multi-chain dApps
“We like Solana. We agreed to make it the default for multi-chain dApps where they don't express a preference for default and the user doesn't.”
Brendan Eich Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 1:14:13 The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
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