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The former CEO of Mozilla is launching a web browser that blocks all ads by defaultwww.businessinsider.com/former-mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich-launches-ad-blocking-web-browser-brave-2016-1?r=UK&IR=T
Replacing adverts — with adverts"We need to clean the swimming pool," Brendan Eich says. "Chlorinate the pool. Only by doing that can we build a better ad model for publishers as well as users."This is the more radical aspect of Brave — re-inserting new adverts. The browser will detect where adverts should go and fill them with new programmatic advertising. Eich says that by doing so, they can offer a better deal to publishers than currently exists by cutting out the adtech middle-men. Publishers will get around 55% of revenues. 15% will go to Brave. 15% will go to the partner that supplies the ads. And, interestingly, 10-15% goes directly to the user. It "won't be huge," Eich says, but this will let users automatically make micro-payments to publishers they like. Brave will then block all the adverts on the sites that they choose to pay for.The adverts that Brave display will be based on tags generated from the user's web browsing history (although this history won't be shared with advertisers). This is, arguably, somewhat invasive — although users can customise their tags and add and remove them as they wish.
Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability (CVE-2016-0728)http://perception-point.io/2016/01/14/analysis-and-exploitation-of-a-linux-kernel-vulnerability-cve-2016-0728/