2018-11-17 18:08 |
Brave Announces SpeedReader With Enhanced Performance, Privacy and Features
Brave announced on November 15 the new SpeedReader, a new approach to reader mode that works in a much efficient way. According to the official report, it will make surfing the website a much faster and pleasant thing.
The new tool is useful in 22% of new web pages and has higher capabilities on Twitter and Reddit. With this implementation, there will be improvements in speed, memory reduction and bandwidth savings. According to the report, the speed will increase between 20x to 70x, bandwidth savings will reach 84x and the improvement on memory used will be 2.4x.
At the same time, the announcement informs that there will be improvements in privacy by completely eliminating ad and tracking related request. The main intention with these improvements is to provide a more private and faster platform for users.
SpeedReader will also be removing all the non-essential content before the page loads. This would allow users to save time and bandwidth at the same time that it will be removing ads and trackers.
The company wrote about the SpeedReader:
“SpeedReader is a new approach to reader modes. It delivers huge improvements to not only the aesthetics of the browsing experience but to browsing performance and privacy as well. For suitable pages, SpeedReader removes all non-essential content before the page load, saving time, bandwidth and removing ads trackers.”
SpeedReader works before the page rendering and determines the resource that is needed before fetching. In terms of privacy, by applying the tree transduction, it offers a reduction in scripts executed.
At the same time, Brave’s Basic Attention Token (BAT), is being traded as one of the virtual currencies with the largest growth in the market in the last 24 hours. It is important to mention that during the last days, Bitcoin and other virtual currencies dropped very hard.
BAT has a market capitalization of $263 million dollars and each coin can be purchased for $0.22 dollars.
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