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Thanks for your question! The tech behind Brave search is based on many years of previous work at Cliqz, Tailcat and now, Brave. There is a blog post that is still relevant, it should be a very detailed introduction to our indexing techniques.

TLDR: We index a vast majority of the web worth visiting as people anonymously contribute good quality sites. This helps us filter out the noise, which is the biggest problem in search and machine learning in general. Our index is around 9 billion pages (and growing), only a small part of the Web, but a large part of the Web worth visiting. The traditional techniques used by Google/Bing are brute force and not cost-effective unless you are bigtech. We opted for this approach to bootstrap an independent index for web search. As we work towards increasing our independence, we will introduce more conventional crawling, which is needed for the long, long, long tail.

The tracker used on this site is Matomo, a FOSS, self-hosted analytics tool. Cross-site tracking (such as Facebook's tracking through their like button) is a serious privacy risk, because the intention behind it is to find out as much information as possible about you . An analytics tool such as Matomo is used to find out as much information as possible about the way in which users interact with your website, with the goal being the improvement of the website. This is a huge difference, and web development without this type of feedback is very difficult. Moreover, Brave still blocks this tracker on their own website, which means they haven't built in some kind of whitelist for their own gains. In short, I don't really see the problem with this.

Difficult question, but the no need to answer triggered my attention :-)

The only solution I see is word of mouth,

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

https://search.brave.com/search?q=fool+some+people+some+time&source=web

> How does IPFS overcome censorship?

Well, my impression is that IPFS actually doesn't do much -- yet. I think Brave is one of the few browsers to support IPFS so far. But looking ahead, the idea is that an IPFS-based web would be massively decentralized. So it won't be so easy for (say) AWS to decide it doesn't like one of its paying clients and just pull their servers offline -- because IPFS is a peer-to-peer network and does not rely on the simpler client-server model. You can read more about it here:

https://ipfs.io/

I might add that Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt project may be a very roughly similar sort of thing, but I am not sure. I'm rooting for Inrupt and/or IPFS to create a new web, because the one we've got right now is a hot mess.

It's funny I deployed Brave on a few computers to give it a test and was told from upper management to not install unknown browsers on computers. They then tried accusing the browser of malware (only downloaded exes from brave.com of course. no 3rd party). Was also told that open source is not good because the code is open to everyone and Chrome and Mozilla are more private.

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I was pissed off for days.

Are you on a de-googled rom or rooted device? Your screenshot is what I have using brave on a firestick 4k.

Run this to test your droid device.

For VPN's I recommend ProtonVPN, I trust them with my data. Ping is as good as NordVPN and they will soon implement WireGuard. For OS, I love Manjaro, Linux OS based on Arch, as private as OpenBSD since it is Linux. I would also recommend LineageOS if you have an Android device for more privacy.

Def worth checking out. All you need to do is go to https://search.brave.com

What’s unique about Brave Search is that it’s based on a proprietary and independent search index whereas nearly all search engines today are built on top of Google or Bing (DuckDuckGo is a privacy layer on top of Bing). You do not get tracked on your searches and privacy is taken seriously for Brave Search. In the future, Brave will integrate Brave Rewards into Brave Search and include search ads that users will receive some level of BAT for (TBD on the mechanics).

You can read more here: https://brave.com/search/

Brave is not a not-for-profit company :). It is certainly open source, though!

>is this something to do with the cryptocurrency BAT?

We have a referral program going https://brave.com/refer which marketers like to use, and partners also get involved with. It pays out $5 USD in BAT tokens per monthly active user.

Websites, YouTubers, etc. are also interested in spreading the word because in addition to referrals, Brave features a built-in "Patreon"/tipping system, which allows audiences to easily tip YouTubers, Twitch streamers, etc. with BAT tokens.

It's a win-win for everyone :).

Chromium includes a rendering engine and a front-end UI. Currently Brave uses the Chromium rendering engine but Muon for the UI. Once V1 is released the UI will be Chromium as well which means support for all the plugins. Check out the blog post for more details.

https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

https://brave.com/brave-sync-ios/

Based on what I've read, it appears that you encrypt locally, send the encrypted data to Brave's servers for storage, retrieve the data from other devices by downloading the encrypted data from Brave's servers and decrypt locally on the new device.

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In Brave's roadmap, there's a line item for "Sync V2". But no details on what that means but it seems unlikely to me that a blockchain would ever be used. No one wants to pay fees to keep their devices in sync. Something more along the lines of Resilio Sync would probably be more appropriate as a way to decentralize syncing.

Hello, please check out: https://brave.com/privacy

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"Brave automatically checks with us for updates. This ensures that you always have access to the latest security fixes. We count the number and type of these requests when we receive them to produce aggregate statistics. No particular person's information can be identified in the statistics we produce."

Wish I could find my old answers on this, but in short:

1. Uphold provides custodial wallet services for user and publishers because the vast majority of users and publishers do not know how to operate on-chain wallets or manage private keys. (That is why holding funds on Coinbase, and using centralized exchanges, is more popular than holding the private keys yourself or using a DEX.)
2. An Uphold account will not be necessary moving forward, as announced here: https://brave.com/brave-civic-partnership/ Payments will be sent to an Ethereum address with no Uphold account. We may also introduce other vendors.
3. KYC is required by law (cf. AML) if there are custodial wallet services at any point in the flow.
4. We will be decentralizing more over time and facilitating more P2P options. In the meantime, feel free to post your Ethereum address in your tipping banner for those who are inclined to send P2P tips. (Though ironically, this is a good exercise to see just how much of a barrier to adoption/participation this really is at present!)

/u/afail77 /u/chute91 /u/whezzel /u/0x00x0x000x0x00x0 /u/MetalJacke1

You will be able to. In essence, you will be able to link your Uphold.com account (other options in the future) to your in-browser Brave Rewards wallet once withdrawal functionality is released. It's the next major upgrade to Brave Rewards, and the team is working hard to ship this feature for users.

Brave is only using Google and Bing for a small subset of queries where we do not have enough confidence (see our independence score in the "burger menu").

From our help page about the independence score: https://search.brave.com/help/independence

>Brave is fully capable of answering 99% of queries completely on its own. This check against third-parties is not due to lack of completeness. Rather, it's that for certain queries or result types (e.g. images) we may not be completely confident in our results to be at the level of quality you'd expect. In these cases, we rely on third-parties strictly as a means to an end: To ensure private results, served largely from an independent index, and a quality and nuance equal to that of other, older indexes. The results independence % will increase as Brave search improves, and as more people switch to Brave search.

On the other hand, Startpage and DDG rely fully on a third party for their results (Google and Bing respectively).

Brave definitely wouldn't help with this. In fact the notice almost certainly came from a copyright troll connected to the torrent itself so the issue is network connections from your torrent client, not your browser. You need something at the network level to disguise your traffic when torrenting (e.g. a VPN like Mullvad or a seedbox to keep the torrents off your network altogether.

/r/piracy may be of interest to you, especially the wiki. You would likely find better advice on this on that subreddit.

We will be making other vendors and withdrawal options available moving forward.

See this announcement as well about direct Ethereum address withdrawals: https://brave.com/brave-civic-partnership/

Just to clarify, when you get a list of businesses, the map should already be clickable to show a full-page map with all the places (e.g. https://search.brave.com/search?q=restaurants+sf). When we show a single business as an infobox, we do not allow to click the map (yet). This is something we are planning for future updates once we figure out the best UX and map integration.

According to the readme in brave-browser, the two should be very different. Brave-browser pulls from brave-core, which is the upcoming Brave v1.0 rewrite that jettisons the Electron (Muon) front-end you find in browser-laptop, and uses the native Chromium front-end. Once Brave v1.0 is released, browser-laptop will be considered legacy.

See here for more info about v1.0: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

Just released it about ~2hrs ago! If you already have Brave installed, you should received a notification to download 0.23.19.

You can also download the latest executable from https://brave.com/ as well.

Our official blog post regarding the release if you're interested: https://brave.com/tor-tabs-beta/

We get it, you're on some crusade against people making a profit. I'm sure your professors are beaming with pride.

Non-profits can be just as corrupt as any other organization.

Hey,

It's available to me!

According to the e-mail that was sent out (to those who had signed up for Early Access,) Brave Search Beta should now be available to everyone at https://search.brave.com/ -- irrespective of whether they had signed up for early access.

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Could you elaborate a bit on "I can't seem to use it"? What is the issue?

go to https://search.brave.com/ right click on URL and click "add Brave Search" or something like that, and now you can go to about:preferences#search and choose it as a default search engine

^ and on iOS it’s pretty similar, I know Brave and Firefox support it so you just go to “Add custom engine”, type whatever for the title and “https://search.brave.com/search?q=%s” for the URL. you’d still need to verify first

Set Trackers & ads blocking to Aggressive and Fingerprinting blocking to Strict in the global shield defaults, that should do the trick.

Moreover, you can change your DNS servers to https://nextdns.io, which allows you to block even more shady stuff.

Brave v1.0 coming out this US Fall season (in the next few months) will have total Chrome extension compatibility.

https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/87t9hy/clarifying_some_technical_details_on_the_brave_10/

Work for extensions, therefore, will be covered by v1.0 rather than proceeding on a case-by-case basis only to be rendered obsolete once v1.0 is released.

That's a false positive actually, it's for a self-hosted instance of matomo we use at Brave :) Andro and Desktop don't report it in shields

https://github.com/brave/brave-ios/issues/3101 https://matomo.org/

ProtonVPN just made significant portions of their code open source, so raking through that might settle some doubts. I can't say I find this site entirely trustworthy with the typo ("rip off's") at the top of the page. English may not be their first language, but it definitely makes the site come across as amateurish. ProtonVPN also has their own subreddit, so you could also ask them directly.

Yeah, Pixel 3. I'm assuming it's the scoped storage introduced in Android 10/API 29, and Brave still targets Pie/API 28

Edit: I'm basing that on this app called AppChecker

You can add it to the Brave adblock custom filters at the bottom of:

brave://adblock/

Use dev tools (right-click, inspect) to get the ID or element path of the offending box, then work out its adblock plus syntax.

It's a tab group. You can right-click it to bring up the options to rename it, ungroup it, or close the group.

This is a feature from Chromium that exists in Brave as well, you can read about it here:

https://www.google.com/chrome/tips/

Well I’m just going to assume yes it is, because my ip directly connects to Amazon AWS when I go to Brave Search

Secondly I assume being constantly connected to Amazon Cloudfront is brave sponsored spyware since no one ever provides an answer on this “official” subreddit, and I have no way of knowing.

Firefox uses Google as their default search engine. Of course Brave recently released Brave Search to the public as a beta, so that will certainly become the default Brave search engine in the near future.

they changed it. https://search.brave.com/default if you open this with firefox it will show the old way that doesnt work anymore.

in the new firefox you need to right click the brave search URL and then click "add search engine"

your project was probably still good coding practice though so my thumbs up to you regardless.

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take care!

I think they are launching the open search beta in probably the next several hours. Im not a web developer so don't quote me on this, but im imagining that they are going to disable the need for authentication tokens to connect to their search server. So basically im thinking that sometime today anyone will be able to type in search.brave.com and be able to use the engine

I believe it is because search.brave.com is a link to brave search, I think what needs to go there is a string or something for example if you put ;b and you went to the top search bar and prefixed your search with ;b it would search it with brave search. Hope this helps!!

Edit: typo

https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls

I use this open-source extension with Brave to remove the trackers from URLs when browsing the internet. You could use it as a work-around by opening the links in Brave first and then copying the cleaned URLs from the address bar.

Welcome /u/ProcessSor

Easiest option is to download the latest version from the Brave website https://brave.com/download/

It seems like you are using the old version of Brave (Muon). A complete redesign was released recently for Brave that is now based on Chromium. This means once you have the latest version installed, you can head over to the Chrome Store and extensions will work right away.

Brave Muon will not automatically update to Chromium until later in the year -- which is why you haven't seen it yet.

Brave will support an extension for RES, as well as most other common extensions, with the release of V1.0. You can read more about what to expect from 1.0 here!

Thank you for your patience and support!

Currently brave is based on Electron (a fork of chromium) which makes it a little more difficult to install extensions.

In the future we are moving to a chomium based version of Brave https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

The plan is to allow full extension support in this version.

Hope that clears some things up for you and thank you for supporting the project.

There are lots of new fixes and features that have come out. Maybe not ones you personally care about, but there have been tons (see release notes over past year).

However, the most important change is coming with Brave V1 where the entire browser is moving to a full Chromium front end. That will immediately make all Chrome extensions available and compatible with Brave. Right now the reason why some extensions don’t work properly is due to our front end, but once we move over to V1, all those problems disappear.

Please go to https://Brave.com/blog and see the recent major announcement post about Brave v1.0 and the follow up technical discussion by our CTO Bbondy (on reddit).

We have Beta builds available on Github which uses a different profile. But this is not really recommended unless you want to try the pre-release versions.

Alternately you could try passing --user-data-dir-name=something-else command line argument to start it with different user data dirs.

We'll also have profile support when we release builds of our new browser rewrite: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

For me it used to be these amounts in the beginning when Brave Rewards started. Quantity of ads declined more and more and now I'm only getting 2-5 BAT/month since a year or so.

Are you from the US? What ads do you get? I'm in Germany, for me it's crypto-related most of the time. Sometimes Amazon, Audible and NordVPN.

In February I received 20 ads on Android and 58 on PC.

Of course they know. When you aren't using TOR or a VPN service, they can see pretty much everything you do. But like it was said in a previous comment, TOR is not optimized for downloads, it's more for browsing and messaging, etc. and just to be clear, official TOR client is with Firefox, not Brave. For downloads you need to pay for a VPN service, I recommend Mullvad, privacy-friendly, open source, no logs, open vpn and wireshark compatible, etc.

u/djexen,

We have an entire blog series dedicated to exactly this, as well as a Help Center article with the bullet points:

• Blog Post
• Help Center FAQ

Hmm, I don't think it has a name, but you can read the story of how the Brave lion came to be in this retrospective piece by Brave's CTO & Co-founder, Brian Bondy: https://brave.com/the-road-to-brave-one-dot-zero/ :)

https://brave.com/transparency/ Check this link to view the active ad campaigns by region. If your country is not listed there, ads are not support in your region yet. The Brave team is working really hard to support a lot of countries but they can't give an estimated time stamp when your country will be supported.

Do you live in a region where adds are available? https://brave.com/brave-rewards/

If I remember correctly adds can be quite random some days you can get lots others you can get very few. I remember reading this some where but can't find where. Also you don't need to click the adds to earn BAT 😉

huh. yeah, this used to work (for some search engines at least)

the entry I have for it in my defaults list (if you want to add it manually) is:

Search Engine: Ecosia

Keyword: :e

URL: https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=%s&addon=opensearch

I'm on the same version as you and it's in the defaults list for me as
https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=%s&addon=brave

In any case, if you navigate to the Ecosia website, it should show up under "Other search engines" in the Manage Search Engines settings

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flinkapps.safteynet&hl=en_US&gl=US

If your phone is rooted, using a custom rom, not running google like play service, rewards won't work. Run the link above to see if it fails. If it does, rewards definitely won't work. If it passes, usually rewards should work.

TBH I can understand the crypto concerns because I have a pi-hole running and have seen a website being hit with the brave browser called cryptocompare.com. IDK what they are doing with this but I had blocked it. I do have the brave ads enabled but think it's weird that the browser accesses this website from time to time.

upvote for the info (I wouldn't mind alink to a reference, if you have one handy, btw) and also for the damn good user name that helps me "momento mori" (https://www.wordnik.com/words/memento%20mori)

is/was that where you are coming from with the name?

There are plenty of advantages, I'll point out just a few of them:

- Faster browsing ( without all the ads, pop-ups, and videos, it helps to speed up the page loading times 3x to 6x faster than Chrome and Firefox.)

- Blocks ads and trackers by default (ofc you can install an Adblocker on almost any browser nowadays)

- Privacy control - Brave never collects, stores, or has any access to my browsing and personal information.

- More secure - Brave will use an encrypted connection on every site based on HTTPS Everywhere 100’s rules.

- Save money & time - Without redundant ads and trackers that clog a web page, I save both money and time.

- Earn money - I get paid for viewing personalized ads and the content that I publish.

Some answers, copy-pasted from https://brave.com/brave-rewards/, which I recommend reading:

>Private ads in Brave Rewards do not replace current web page ads.
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>By default, Brave blocks privacy-invading web ads and trackers that are embedded in page content. Joining Brave Rewards does not affect your current blocking settings for each website you visit. The private ads you see as part of Brave Rewards are shown separately from your browsing experience and are not the same as the invasive, performance-sapping ads embedded in websites.

The user share of the advertiser's payment for a private ad is one-twentieth of one BAT.

Hm, I am on MacOS and everything's been working super smoothly!

• Are you on a VPN pointing outside the US?
• Can you go into your Notifications settings and make sure that you don't have Do Not Disturb enabled, and then check notifications settings for Brave Browser? Perhaps you have disabled/unchecked.
• You can try downloading the developer version (https://brave.com/download-dev) and seeing if ads work there!

you are right, that would be a valic comparison.

Here is a study that compares brave with chrome+uBO, which shows that Brave is a bit better when it comes to memory usage: https://brave.com/memory-savings-in-brave/

Chrome does exactly the same, you know.

They've just packaged it in a neat deployment package for supporting systems. Brave is a beta product in development, deployment packages aren't an priority yet.

https://www.google.com/chrome/ provides a .deb package for Ubuntu stsmtes, complete with source repository and key installs. Exactly the same thing we're doing manually here.

If you're having trouble with gmail, try the following:

1. Clear cache/site data for mail.google.com
2. Go to mail.google.com
3. Open your Shields panel and leave Shields = Up, but change the Cookies setting to All Cookies allowed.
4. Try again to authenticate

Yup! Log into your Uphold.com account, and then send BAT from there like any other exchange. Uphold's UI is a little different from other exchanges, but you can select "send to Basic Attention Token", which will then let you enter in a BAT/Ethereum address.

If you had an Uphold account attached to your Brave browser, your BAT balance should be linked with your Uphold account. So, if you go to Uphold.com and log in, you should see the BAT tokens in your Uphold account!

Let us know if you find them there.

One of the best features IMO is the ability to receive BAT in exchange for non obtrusive, non targeted ads. I would definitely turn the Brave Rewards feature on.

You can use that BAT to hold, exchange for other crypto or fiat, or [most importantly] use it to tip Brave Creators that you enjoy.

A Brave Creator is anyone who is signed up through the Brave Creator site and has a verified status. These creators can range from a single person (like me), to large organizations like Wikipedia, and everything in between.

Tipping is an important part of the Brave browser and BAT network. It lets the content creator know that you enjoyed the content they provide. It could say a lot more than that, but Tipping is one of the things that keeps brave browser and BAT going.

The other option is to exchange for crypto or cash via Uphold.com.

And third, you are free to hold onto these BAT and do whatever you want with them as they become yours.

NOTE: occasionally, you will earn BATs in the form of grants. These grants are specifically given for you to tip others. Please do not tip yourself these grants, as they may cause your account to be flagged.

If you install Homebrew with this command from their website:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

then you can install Brave with:

brew cask install brave

However, I'm confused what you're trying to do, you want to remove your browsers but then install Brave anyway? Why not just install Brave before you remove your other browsers? I don't really get what your goal is here.

Thanks, you got it. Second time was the charm. Complete uninstall (neglected to remove the Brave %AppData% files/folders first go around), once I was confident I had cleared all the files -- even grabbed portable version of Bulk Crap Uninstaller to double-check my work. Rebooted, reinstalled a freshie version of Brave browser, imported bookmarks from my HTML file backup and now working on configuring things again.

Thankfully it's just a browser re-install and not a complete OS overhaul. That I've been semi in need of, now that it's been 2+ years with this same Win10 Pro install, could use a freshening up, but I'm lazy.

Yes, brave blocks youtube ads too.

For mobile, use youtube vanced app if you have android phone (it's not available on the play store, you need to get it from their website)

Brave also has a Search Engine which, while new, is really good.

So yeah, in terms of getting away from Google, a pretty good starting place is:

• Brave browser (rather than Google Chrome)
• Brave Search or DuckDuckGo as search engine (rather than Google Search)

Dude, stop being useless and find it yourself. The second link I just sent is the image that was on the https://search.brave.com homepage.

Why the hell do you need this logo and why are you expecting the internet to find it/edit it for you? Use your brain, maybe burn half a calorie by typing with those fingers you were born with, and do it yourself.

If you really need the favicon that bad, then just download the favicon. It's NOT that hard.

Edit: THERE IS NO OFFICIAL BRAVE SEARCH LOGO.

Hey, Brave Search engineer here. Thanks a lot for the feedback! We're looking into it. In the meanwhile, did you enable the Google Fallback mixing? It allows Brave Search to mix its own results with Google results (fetched anonymously) directly in your browser in such cases. You can enable this in settings: https://search.brave.com/settings under the "Google fallback mixing" section.

I'm getting an error: "Firefox could not install the search engine from: https://search.brave.com/auth/assets/opensearch.xml"

Someone on another thread said it's only available for default in brave as of now.

EDIT: Nevermind, it actually just worked after I tried it a few times

I know how to make a default search engine but not how to set search.brave.com as the default new tab page instead of the default brave dashboard where it shows stats and stuff.

Here is a scan of the infected Brave Browser: https://app.any.run/tasks/4fe2ec60-23f0-4c41-94e2-5d59904aca4e
It sends data to Hong Kong!

It’s not. You should be able to test here and get “it has strong protection against tracking” as a result

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

If youtube was able to bypass Brave adblock, then it could be more of problem of the filterlist rather than Brave itself.

Also I have seen uBlock users are reporting over their subreddit than they have gotten ads on Youtube. So, it’s possible google is involve.

You can go search for the other sites that test adblockers

https://blockads.fivefilters.org/

Sorry my mistake. I've just looked further as I haven't used just the pure ADGuard DNS and thought it could be configured like the clients can, but it looks like it can't. This would cause me problems as I have sites that won't let me complete a checkout without whitelisting the site (Tesco for instance).

Depending on how many requests you make a month (if you don't want to pay), you could try NextDNS.io. If you have a fixed IP or setup a dynamic DNS, then you can create a configuration and set custom filters and more importantly, whitelist URLs in the interface. It is free for the first 300000 requests a month. After this is resolves the address but doesn't block. There is a paid account available too for around £18 a year, which has unlimited requests. You can get an idea of how many requests you make by signing up for a free account and monitoring the analytics page - this tells you how many requests in the previous 30 days. It is possible you will be under the 300000 limit.

I am sure there are other similar DNS resolvers but haven't used them.

I am using the web version of the extension, 1PasswordX, with Brave.

Download page link

That solves the password-service problem, but leaves the mystery unsolved about why the 1Password extension does not find the 1Password application.

Hi there! At the moment, only the original 1Password extension will work in Brave, not 1Password X.

If your device runs macOS or Windows, to get the extension working you'll want to download 1Password then go into Brave's Preferences > Extensions and enable the 1Password extension.

1Password X only supports Chrome and Firefox right now, though if the Brave team would like to add it, our team is here to help them! It looks like there's already a request for 1Password X in Brave here on their forums.

Let me know if there's anything more I can help you with. :)

- Henry from AgileBits (makers of 1Password)

If you're also using the Decentraleyes extension, it's better to use the HTTPS Everywhere extension instead and disable 'Upgrade connections to HTTPS' in the shields, so you can configure HTTPS Everywhere to avoid conflicts with Decentraleyes.

https://decentraleyes.org/configure-https-everywhere/ > Disabling HTTPS Everywhere for supported CDNs prevents conflicts. Decentraleyes will attempt to set up secure connections when forced to let intercepted requests through, so this will not negatively impact security.

u/jaqtuscaq, you're likely using the Muon build of Brave (v0.25.2).

This has since been depreciated in favor of this!

I highly recommend downloading the new build as it blows the old one out of the water with a litany of bug fixes, new features and support for extensions.

Built-in Dark theme too!

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Hi u/Snatchmo!

Brave should be restoring your session when reopening but it does have some known errors.

The team is working very hard to roll out Brave 1.0 as soon as possible, so while I can't guarantee this fix will come before then, I can say that it will be included with it!

We appreciate your support!

EDIT: Tagged the wrong user

Hi /u/laggingreflex, the correct link is without the /blog/... in between. That may be an old link. Can you let me know where you found the link to that blog post with the /blog/... in between? Perhaps you were led there by a Google search? Thanks!

Here is the correct link: https://brave.com/loading-chrome-extensions-in-brave/

Side note: Just wanted to mention that with Brave v1.0 (the rewrite of the browser which we'll likely see a release of in October) will use Chromium's bookmark manager, which means it'll essentially be identical to the bookmark manager you have in Chrome.

You can find more information about it here: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

Brave Unveils Development Plans for Upcoming 1.0 Browser Release, Including Transition to Chromium Front-End

Hi u/ForkFolio,

I'd first like to say that we do not have a deal with cell phone providers.

While Brave's shields and secure connections do encrypt the data that is transmitted from endpoint to endpoint, your cell phone service provider is still able to see the actual endpoints themselves, and is likely to have mapped the endpoint that Wikipedia is using from the info you have provided.

The difference between encrypting the data within the connection (making the connection secure), and hiding or anonymizing the connection, is important here.

For example, Brave recently released a feature that allows for users to connect over Tor in private tabs on desktop. Tor relays the endpoints, providing the anonymity in addition to the secure connections that Brave provides through our default shield settings: https://brave.com/tor-tabs-beta

We're working on supporting similar functionality in mobile as well in the near future.

Hope this helps!!

Any feature requests you'd like to see you can submit on our Community Feature Requests page.

You can expect this (among many other things) to be fixed in our Chromium-fork . In the meantime, if the suggestions it gives you aren't what you're looking for, you can always disable them: about:preferences --> Search -->Show Site Suggestions/Autocomplete search term.

>an innovative way to pay content providers (if you want to) and, soon, a way to earn money yourself and the guarantee that we will never (ever) collect or send any of your private data/information without your explicit consent to so.

I sing your praises to everyone I know. It just doesn't seem to work as well on my Linux machine. I compare it every week or so. I can't wait until version 1.0 comes out. Is there any way to stay up to date on that progress?

Thanks for reaching out on here :)

There have been various improvements to tabs but we are aware that tabs have been an issue for Brave, and I believe it is often challenging because of the Electron front-end. The tabs should handle just as well as in Chrome with Brave v1.0, so you may want to wait until then. In the meantime, Brave is great to go on mobile, where 75% of our users are right now!

https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

Did not even know about that. Not quite as easy as grabbing a screenshot on Firefox but a good alternative for the Brave browser. Thanks.

Snip and Sketch

u/cjbeatsss,

Visit keep.google.com in Brave, click Main menu --> More tools --> Create Shortcut. Use this newly created shortcuts to open Brave up to the site directly.

From what I can tell there is still no evidence of logging.

I'd say if you're anxious about it then go with Mullvad or Proton. I use Nord because they have an absolute shit-ton of servers so you can pretty much brute force region locks. Just turn it on for Netflix and torrenting.

Thanks for this. I switched to ProtonVPN and cancelled my BraveVPN service. Got a bit tired of Brave never responding to any of my questions and, you're right, PVPN really is a much more robust service.

Yes I have the instances sync'd together.

I am using the following extensions..

OneTab, NordVPN, BitWarden, Darkreader, Gapps Launcher, Zotero Connector, Google Translate, Metamask, Enhancer for Youtube, and Google Docs Offline,

It doesn't, but neither does Opera. Opera pretty much just gives you a proxy and it's very unlikely that they're respecting your privacy. If you want an actual VPN for free look into the free plans of providers like ProtonVPN or Windscribe (you'd have to make the decision on who to trust yourself though).

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EDIT: Brave does have a paid VPN powered by Guardian on iOS. But this is not available on desktop or android.

Differences between the APK’s (Both should work but mono is specifically optimized for Android OS 7.0+)

• modern is for Android OS 5.0+
• mono is for Android OS 7.0+

You can download the latest Nightly via https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brave.browser_nightly.

Sync v2 is currently available on the Desktop Beta, Dev and Nightly channels. On Android it is only available on the Nightly channel: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brave.browser_nightly&hl=en

It should not take too long to reach Beta on Android as well.

I'm using Brave Beta on Desktop as my daily driver browser on both Windows and Linux (I dual boot). I also have Brave Nightly for Android on my smartphone. So far, it's working pretty well.

I'll probably keep running Brave Beta on Desktop indefinitely . But I will move to Beta on Android once it also gets Sync v2.

In my opinion, the VPN is useful but the Firewall less so. If you frequently login to public wifi spots at airports and hotels, a VPN is a must. You just don't know if anyone's listening in on those types of connections, so it is best to be safe.

The Firewall in my opinion is less useful. If you're using other apps that connect to cloud services, most likely they're able to track you regardless of whether you have a firewall or not.

Given the above reasons, I really wish they had split the Firewall and VPN into separate packages. Outside VPN services are only $5 bucks a month, which makes Brave's $10 dollar Firewall + VPN a bit too expensive compared to the competition.

If you're looking for a VPN service, I personally would recommend Mullvad, but as with all things privacy related, do your own research and don't just listen to people online!

Yeah thats really the only reason i keep clicking on these ads for Harrys Razors. I will more than likely never buy one but im flooded with Harry's Razors, NordVPN, Fubo TV notifications all the time. the only reason i click them is to get the BAT. most of these ads i dont care about. i get so many notifications on my phone already for other things (news flash etc), so if i can just swipe these notifications aside and still get the same BAT i would.

This is Express VPN URL is one that's running in Brave Ads, and we think it's probably a false positive on BitDefender's front. We've notified ExpressVPN and they will be in contact with BitDefender to resolve.

Thanks!

On Android I use Firefox Focus.

On desktop it helps to have some tab management extension / its faster if there are only few open - I've noticed in my usage that I keep 50+ tabs open, but I'm using only 3-5; the rest can be safely put into background and/or sleep.

Thanks, I see more and more websites including country specific content and I absolutely hate it since its never opt-in. I actually use NordVPN which is great, but specifically for Android I don't keep it on 100% of the time due to battery drainage. I'm assuming it is the cookies then remembering the location because even with it on it redirects me? Wouldn't a blacklist prevent that redirect?

Honestly I'd love if you opened a commit for it since its something I really see as a bad trend websites are taking with it. I'm fine with some pornhub ads, I'm however not fine in companies suggesting and pushing content popular in my country for the sake of increasing clicks when I don't want that. I'm actually surprised very little people are talking about it.

Also, I understand it's complicated. I've posted a thread I found below and realize it's far more complicated than I'd imagine features being implemented. You guys are doing awesome and Its already much better than the other browsers!

Thanks for the suggestion - I managed to narrow the extensions down to WindScribe VPN that was causing the issue. They had built-in adblockers as well, which I think disabled FIFA's video ads and caused a problem.

The issue is now resolved, thank you!

Not sure if this will do the trick, but try this:

1) Go to 'Brave Ad Block' on the main menu.

2) Check off 'Fanboy Annoyances List' and 'uBlock Annoyances List '.

But don't go checking off everything because that will degrade performance.

You might also need to do some custom filters. Right click in the page and pick the secondary menu called "Brave".

Also you can write custom filters ==> https://adblockplus.org/filter-cheatsheet

I'm not familiar with Outlook, but as an example here is one I made to suppress video ads on Yahoo mail.

< mail.yahoo.com##.p_R.q_Z281SGl.r_P.e_dRA >

HTH

It's an arms race with advertisers.

My set up in addition to the check off Fanboy's Annoyances and uBlock Annoyances. YMMV, but don't check off too many or you will slow down performance.

It's also good to make use of adding your own custom filters.

Here is one of mine as an example.

||i.ytimg.com/an_webp

Suppresses YouTube thumbnail animations.

How to write filters: https://adblockplus.org/filter-cheatsheet

Also make use of the Brave right click menu option.