uk666 5,298 Report post Posted February 20, 2017 Brave: A Privacy Focused Browser With Built-in Torrent Streaming Brave is a new privacy and security focused web browser with built-in support for torrent downloading and streaming. Powered by the novel Web Torrent technology, Brave can download torrents, through magnet links, directly from the browser After a reign of roughly a decade, basic old-fashioned BitTorrent clients have lost most of their appeal today. While they are still one of the quickest tools to transfer data over the Internet, the software became somewhat outdated with the rise of video streaming sites and services. It also supports torrent downloads out of the box, and even instant torrent streaming. To find out more, torrentfreak reached out to lead developer Brian Bondy, who co-founded the project with his colleague Brendan Eich. Bondy says that Brave significantly improves browsing speeds while shielding user’s again malicious ads. It also offers a wide range of privacy and security features such as HTTPS Everywhere, script blocking, built-in adblocker and third party cookie blocking. What people should keep in mind though, considering Braves focus on privacy, is that torrent transfers are far from anonymous. Without a VPN or other anonymizer, third party tracking outfits are bound to track the downloads or streams. While torrent downloading in a browser is not completely new (Opera has a similar feature, for example) Brave also supports torrent streaming. This means that users can view videos instantly, as they would do on a streaming site. “WebTorrent support lets Brave users stream torrents from their favourite sites right from the browser. There is no need to use a separate program. This makes using torrents a breeze for beginners, a group that has sometimes found the technology a challenge to work with,” Bondy says. Brave is currently available a variety of platforms including Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, and iOS. torrentfreak 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
