Security News > 2022 > January > Privacy-focused Brave browser records massive growth in 2021
The privacy-focused web browser Brave continues to grow rapidly as the company reached 50 million monthly active users for the first time in 2021.
What makes Brave browser stand out is that they do not track your searches or share any personal or identifying data with third-party companies like Google or Microsoft.
With the increasing reports of data breaches and online tracking, people have increasingly become concerned about how their data is being used online and this has contributed to the growth of Brave and DuckDuckGo.
Brave has seen huge growth on a year-by-year basis and the company said they doubled the number of monthly active users for the fifth year in a row.
Brave also recorded over 15.5 million daily active users and its mobile browser has now been downloaded over 10M times.
"Passing 50 million users is a tremendous milestone for our company. It is also a powerful confirmation of the global movement underway led by users seeking alternatives to the surveillance economy," said Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave in a blog post.