A group of the biggest U.S. newspaper publishers – including Dow Jones, The Washington Post, and The New York Times Co. – have cosigned what they are calling a “cease and desist” letter sent to the former Mozilla CEO’s new browser company.
Brendan Eich’s new browser, Brave, announced its launch early this year. The browser – available on iOS, Android, OS X, Windows, and Linux – has ad-blocking software baked into it, which blocks all ads by default and replaces them with its own ads that it says load quicker and “protect data sovereignty [and] anonymity” of users by blocking tracking pixels and cookies.
