New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
In Brief Posted: 11:19 AM PST · November 2, 2026 Image Credits:Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Rebecca Bellan New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company,…
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In Brief Posted: 11:19 AM PST · November 2, 2026 Image Credits:Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Rebecca Bellan New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. Separately on Monday, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit. Both were brought in federal court in Manhattan. The New York Times, which has also sued OpenAI and Perplexity over similar claims, likens Brave to a “supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content” for AI companies. “In this way, Brave acts both like a burglar that misappropriates the content of publishers, and an AI ‘fence’ that sells stolen content to third parties,” the suit reads. It says Brave built an index of more than 30 billion web pages using an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers unable to block it. The suit also targets a Brave browser feature that bypasses paywalls and the company’s practice of blocking publishers’ ads while selling its own. Founded in 2015, Brave has raised roughly $250 million to date, according to private-market trackers. The Times seeks an injunction and damages. Brave did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Topics AI, Brave, In Brief, new york times November 4 Boston Buy One Pass, Get a Second FreeCover more ground at TechCrunch’s ultimate founder bootcamp of the year by bringing your co-founder or partner for freeBook before the BOGO deal expires Register Now Newsletters See More Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Latest in AI AI Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses Jagmeet Singh 2 hours ago AI Apple may try to increase revenue by doing…something with third-party AI apps Lucas Ropek 4 hours ago AI Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens Julie Bort 5 hours ago