Brendan Eich, CEO of Brave Browser – Built-in Ad Blocking Capability & More
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Brendan Eich, CEO of Brave Browser talks about privacy and giving the end user complete control of their browsing. He shares his concerns regarding ransomware, how they can capitalize on vulnerabilities, created by cookies placed on your computer by
websites, even major news websites that you'd be dismayed to learn are selling your browsing data to
dozens of marketers.
Brendan surprised us by describing how even VIEWING an ad on a given website can pass malware into your computer without you even knowing it.
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Brief Bio:
Brendan Eich
President and CEO, Brave Software
Brendan Eich is the co-founder and CEO of Brave Software (https://brave.com/), a start-up that aims to transform the online ad ecosystem with faster and safer browsing, as well as micropayments and better ads to give users and publishers a better deal. Eich previously served as CTO, then CEO of the Mozilla Corporation. Prior to that, he co-founded the Mozilla project and foundation. While at Mozilla, Eich helped launch the award-winning Firefox web browser. Eich is also the inventor of JavaScript, the Internet's most widely used programming language.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.9 | Future Technologies are poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. |
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| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
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| 0:25.8 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs, this is Future Tech Podcast, almost here, around the corner |
| 0:30.7 | of technology. |
| 0:32.0 | And today I have Brendan from Brave.com. |
| 0:35.4 | How are you doing, Brendan? |
| 0:37.2 | Okay, thanks for having me. |
| 0:39.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.7 | Brendan's, I guess, been a little bit under the weather, |
| 0:43.1 | and my voice is kind of a little bit off, |
| 0:45.3 | but we're going to make do. |
| 0:46.4 | So, yeah, thanks for coming, Brendan. |
| 0:48.7 | I appreciate it. |
| 0:50.5 | My pleasure. |
| 0:53.5 | Brian, can you give folks a sketch of what it is you do at Brave and what Brave does? |
| 0:59.0 | Sure. |
| 1:00.0 | Excuse me. |
| 1:01.0 | Brave is built a new browser for mobile, like iOS, Android, and also Windows and MacOS and Linux. |
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