Founders of privacy-focused Brave browser say they're in an arms race they can win

In a Reddit AMA, the co-founders of Brave said that the battle for privacy was an arms race they can win thanks to the company's ability to innovate quickly.

The launch of Brave 1.0 invited many questions from the Reddit community, most of which focused on Brave's mechanisms for securing data and preventing tracking.

Privacy-focused Brave browser has had quite a successful year-from introducing multiple new features and signing up various new publishers such as Wikipedia, to hitting 9 million active monthly users earlier this week.

While the goal of the AMA was to promote the latest version of the browser, which both Bondy and Eich say is better, faster, and more secure than the previous one, the questioned seemed to focus on comparing Brave to its competitors.

According to Eich, one of the biggest differences between working on Brave and working on Mozilla is the ability to innovate quickly.

If Brave is to continue to grow at its current pace, it's only a matter of time before it transforms from a small, niche browser to a serious corporation, not unlike Mozilla.

Brave building an empire on making privacy a valuable commodity.

According to Eich, Brave doesn't collect user browsing data at all, as all data is encrypted with a key only the user has.

When asked what if major websites such as Facebook and Google decided not to be compatible with Brave, Eich said that was an arms race they could win.

According to Bondy, who is the company's chief technical officer, there are detailed development plans in place for the next 12 months that will include doing more work on integration, Brave's native crypto wallet, and platforms supporting Brave Rewards.