Brave Browser

Mozilla announces they will ship GPC (Global Privacy Control) in Firefox 120. Note : the settings will be done by the user choice and not by default which is the case via DuckDuckGo or Brave cc @mozilla @bravebrowser https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/373F82Jzcjs/m/ImZKgRNIAQAJ

@brave @bravebrowser Cloudflare announced full and complete support for encrypted clienthello on all cloudflare plans and web properties via their blog. Will brave, the company that prides itself on fixing the internet follow suite for brave.com, the brave.com onion and the web servers the Brave Browser itself connects to. Encrypted clienthello, along with DNS over HTTPS, DNSSEC, TLS1.3 and proper certificates identifying the webmaster responsible are essential in today's day and age.

Saw many people giving 'instructions' on how to make Chrome not spy on you.
Why not just use a privacy friendly browser and save all the hassle? I've been using @bravebrowser for years now and I am VERY happy!
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

Release Notes v1.57.47 (Aug 15, 2023)

I've been waiting for a long time thanks to the developer

I'm choosing a main browser, and I think that firefox with ublock and brave are probably equally good in terms of privacy and security, both of them look quite nice, and both are FOSS. The final thing that I'm considering is resource consumption. This reddit post shows that firefox is better than brave in benchmarks and ram consumption, but what about when firefox has ublock running and brave has all their preinstalled "extension" like brave rewards and wallet disabled (except brave shields is left enabled)?

As of writing this post, Brave browser version 1.56.9 was recently released, and "Forgetful Browsing" is still only available as an experimental flag.

Also they've just skipped versions directly from 1.52 to 1.56, explained here.

Your thoughts?

Hi,

Today me and other 5 Ubuntu users with similar setup had an issue with brave. It glitches with rendering, completely missing fonts and some ui elements. brave-browser --disable-gpu fixes it.

Anybody else have the issue and possibly a fix without disabling hardware acceleration?

1.52.130 Chromium: 114.0.5735.198 (Official Build) (64-bit)

EDIT:

For future reference here is the fix. I think it's related to new MESA update

rm -rf ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/GPUCache and restart brave

I know that in a lot of privacy communities they recommend to use uBlock in addition to Privacy Badger. The reason for this, I believe, is the uBlock functions off of block lists while Privacy Badger functions by recognizing the behavior of trackers. Does Brave Shields only function off of block lists or should I also install privacy badger? Please correct me if I got any of those details wrong.

@bravebrowser Hi,I'm #VisuallyImpaired & use #Voiceover, which is Apple's #Screen-reader. I'm encountering a serious issue with the #iOS version of your app. This affects both the #AppStore & #beta versions. When trying to delete bookmarks, the app immediately crashes. Can you please fix this? This is my favorite browser!

Mobile

1.37.116

• Improved general performance by fixing cosmetic filters. (#22030)
• Added "Enable Tab Group auto creation" setting under "Appearance" which controls the ability to open links in separate tabs. (#22105)
• Fixed rounding issues under Brave Wallet via the "Send" and "Swap" panels by increasing the digits after the decimal to 0.00000000 (8 digits) from 0.000000 (6 digits). (#22257)
• Fixed crash when attempting to send opened tab to another devices on sync chain using "Send to your devices". (#22128)
• Upgraded Chromium to 100.0.4896.127. (#22318) (Changelog for 100.0.4896.127)

Desktop

• Upgraded Chromium to 100.0.4896.127. (#22318) (Changelog for 100.0.4896.127)

In this release, we:

• Added the ability to sync passwords saved in the Brave browser between desktop and your iOS device.
• Improved Brave Shields, especially on sites like youtube.com.
• Added Night Mode, making it easier to view and read websites in low light.

• Google’s Third-Party Cookie Replacement Is Flawed, Experts Say

Peter Snyder, senior director of privacy at Brave browser, told Lifewire via email that although Topics is slightly better than FLoC, it certainly doesn't improve privacy.

• Upgrade from Chromium 100.0.4896.58 to Chromium 100.0.4896.79 #22077

Roll-out in 5-6 hours.

1.37.111

• Upgraded Chromium to 100.0.4896.79. (#22077) (Changelog for 100.0.4896.79)

Already got the update in Play Store, dated back 1 April. 2022 v110. The upgrade from 110 to 111 is only the released Chrome 100 stable version, that got released yesterday.

Roll-out in 3 hours for everyone.