Facebook, Goolge, Twitter, all of them infamous for privacy violations. Next step leads to Social media blocking area. Note that blocking all scripts, on the other hand, can break functionality of some websites like those well-known and much visited like Facebook or Youtube among others.Ģ. Same as in case of Firefox, you can also choose strict blocking over standard, but once again it will cost you usability, since strict options may break some sites. Once there, choose shields area on the left side to block all cookies, scripts, trackers & ads as well as fingerprinting. Let’s see the results of EFF’s Cover Your Tracks report for freshly installed Brave Browser in default settings:Īlthough these results sound overtly optimistic, even Brave can be tweaked here and there. You’ll access it by clicking on the shields icon next to the search bar.įurthermore, Onion lovers would be happy to know that while using Brave you can open private search window in Tor network. Right of the bat, you’ll be happy to see that Brave allows users to manage privacy setting and blocked trackers while visiting any website. We make a suite of internet privacy tools-including our browser and search engine-that shield you from the ads, trackers, and other creepy stuff trying to follow you across the web.īrave blocks ads and trackers by default and is considered the most private browser out of the box, according to the conclusion of Douglas Leith’s paper. Brave is fighting back.īrave is on a mission to protect your privacy online. Big Tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what’s true and what’s not.

The internet is a sea of ads, hackers, and echo chambers. This is how’s Brave introduced on their website: After stepping down as Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich founded Brave Software in 2015, offering privacy-first alternative to Big Tech.

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