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a new web browser says it will block ads to protect your privacy but is it too good to be true I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update no one likes the feeling of being tracked by advertisements especially when some stupid thing you looked at on Amazon follows you around the web for a week and ads are also coming with other issues all that tracking can make pages load slower and now we have to worry about as that are loaded with malware that could infect your computer even if you don't click on it all of this just contributes to the growing popularity of ad blocking software but now there's a new web browser that wants to get in on this trend and do the ad blocking for you by default but there's a twist the browser is called brave and it's a project of Brendan Eich he created the JavaScript programming language and he co-founded Mozilla brave blocks all ads by default so ad companies will not be tracking you and pages do load faster but it wants to make money by inserting its own ads in place of the blocked ones so in theory these ads are supposed to be better because instead of using tracking cookies to follow you to ads show up based on your browsing history and that's how it would make money it's still in beta now and the company would need millions of users to even make that model work and the creator's say that maybe you and I could get a cut of the ad revenue and we can send that money as micro payments to support our favorite websites since they would not be making money off ads brave isn't the only browser with guts to do such a thing Firefox has an option called private browsing with tracking protection that also stops websites from spying on you by blocking ads the only ads that do show up are the ones that do not track visitors also on the topic of security if you have an iPhone it's a good idea to download the new operating system update of iOS 9 point two point one it's also for iPads the update itself is minor but it patches a nasty flaw that lets hackers spy on your phone watching what you type or even make purchases without your knowledge it's a little hard to make the hack happen you would have to first connect it to a fake Wi-Fi network that a hacker created but nonetheless it's good to be safe and just download the patch in case there's some evil hockey mask you're mine looking to trip people at your local coffee shop that's different this tech news update but you can catch up on more at cnet.com and be sure to follow me on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey