Brave Browser’s Next Trick: Privacy-Preserving News Recommendations
The federated learning approach allows users to keep their data on their local device rather than on a centralized server. “Brave Today” is just step one.
The privacy-focused Brave browser is seeking to walk the line when it comes to preserving users’ privacy while also offering up news recommendations in its recently launched Brave Today, a news aggregator integrated into the browser.
This continues Brave’s incremental progress toward building out a suite of services meant to rival, and exceed, dominant browsers like Chrome and Safari.
In March, Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, an open search engine, to be the basis of its forthcoming product Brave Search. Brave is pitching Brave Search as a non-tracking alternative to Google Search on Chrome and mobile.
Recommendation systems are a feature of the web today. Whether it be YouTube’s recommendation algorithm or Spotify’s weekly playlist offerings, these systems often rely heavily on tracking your behavior online – meaning, essentially, gathering and analyzing your data.
