By blocking ads and trackers, Brave already reduces how much memory sites use.

This performance work ensures that these built-in protections are as lightweight as possible, too.

These changes are live in Brave Beta on all platforms and will hit the release build by December.

The cosmetic filters in our ad blocker have been moved to flatbuffers, a more compact and efficient type of storage.

This under-the-hood change saves ~12 MB of memory on all platforms (Android, iOS and desktop) by default, and even more when additional lists are enabled!

We’re currently building new AI innovations that could dramatically change how you browse.

One thing won’t change, though: Brave will remain the safest way to use AI.

If you want to use models not normally offered by Leo and want to protect your privacy, use the Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) feature.

BYOM lets you run a model on your own device and connect it to Leo to ensure that none of your data leaves your device: support.brave.app/hc/en-us/art...

You don't have to create an account to chat with Leo for free.

If you buy Leo Premium, which offers higher rate limits + extra models, your privacy is also protected in the subscription process. Subscribers get unlinkable tokens so payment info can’t be used to identify usage.

This same approach applies to any documents or images you ask Leo to analyze. They’re discarded immediately after Leo answers your prompt.

Other companies retain these files on their servers.

All of the AI models offered through Leo are hosted on our own infrastructure to ensure user privacy.

We don’t retain your conversations with Leo or use them for model training. We also don’t collect any personal data such as your IP address.

We're excited to make our browser available on a decentralized and account-free platform that's free of Big Tech restrictions and tracking.

Learn how to install Brave for Android through our F-Droid repository here: github.com/brave/brave-...

Happy you're giving us a shot! Let me know what you think!

Brave makes the Web less annoying in many other ways. The browser blocks ads, cookie pop-ups and other clutter by default to clean up pages and make them load faster.

Get Brave here: brave.com/download

Be aware that blocking elements could break some sites. If you run into issues, select the "Clear all blocked elements" button in the Shields menu.

Otherwise, enjoy this new tool for decluttering the Web!

Block Elements is already in Brave for desktop. Here's how to use it there:

1. Right-click the page you're viewing.
2. Select Block elements.
3. Select the element you want to block.
4. Press the Block Element button.

Learn more about the feature here: brave.com/privacy-upda...

When you see an irritating website element like a promo banner, follow these steps:

1. Tap the Shields (lion) icon on the URL bar.
2. Tap Advanced controls.
3. Tap Block element.
3. Tap what you want to block.
4. Tap the Block Elements button.

Now it's gone! ✨

We're now publishing results of Cookiecrumbler crawls across popular websites on GitHub: github.com/brave-experi...

This will allow the ad blocking community to review these findings so we can further improve cookie notice blocking for everyone.

Cookiecrumbler uses open-source LLM models to automatically detect cookie banners across the Web in multiple languages.

This frees up time for human reviewers to then design blocks for these pop-ups.

The result is better blocking and fewer broken sites: brave.com/privacy-upda...