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Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

203 mentions on Hacker News by 145 people: 15 stories, 188 comments · first 2018-06-21 · latest 2026-09-28

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  1. …for the user. The data which comes back consists of cryptographic attestations; no user data. See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Security-and-pri... for more information. We have also added a way to anonymously detect…
    comment by jonathansampson · 2021-06-21 · in Brave, the false sensation of privacy
  2. …that. Here's a deep-link to the process of "confirmation," which means a user has viewed an ad: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Security-and-pri... .
    comment by jonathansampson · 2021-06-21 · in Brave, the false sensation of privacy
  3. Certainly! Check out the resource detailing our Ad Confirmation process at https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Security-and-pri... (it's a little old, but should be helpful). We leverage the Privacy Pass approach too, so reading…
    comment by jonathansampson · 2021-06-19 · in Brave, the false sensation of privacy
  4. …any requests you like; we also document all of this to the best of our ability on GitHub as well ( https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki ). As for disabling requests, this is a valid petition. Our goal is to have no extra requests…
    comment by jonathansampson · 2021-06-18 · in Brave, the false sensation of privacy
  5. …referring to custom headers. These don't ping anybody. We document the headers on GitHub (see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Custom-Headers ), explaining there that these serve as a substitute for a custom user-agent string…
    comment by jonathansampson · 2021-06-18 · in Brave, the false sensation of privacy
  6. …Wrong, again. Brave is a heavily patched version of Chromium, deviating in many ways (see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... ) from the base project. Again, this would have been quite clear to the author if…
    comment by jonathansampson · 2021-06-18 · in Brave, the false sensation of privacy
  7. …support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360056341952-How... [3] https://brave.com/intro-to-brave-ads/ [4] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/13527
    comment by fastball · 2021-06-18 · in Brave, the false sensation of privacy
  8. …is absolutely the right approach to fingerprinting. They call it "farbling" rather than "fuzzing": https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8787 The alternative is what Firefox does (halfheartedly), which is to try to make users look…
    comment by KirillPanov · 2021-06-16 · in EFF Browser Tracker Simulator
  9. …the web ecosystem. [1] Mozilla https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154 [2] Brave https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/11407
    comment by 1234fef · 2021-06-14 · in Let web applications be file handlers
  10. …a fair chunk of deviations that we maintain (link already shared by Brendan, but here it is again) https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... We have a pretty comprehensive patching system which you can read more about…
    comment by bsclifton · 2021-04-13 · in Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
  11. Taking things out or disabling them at chokepoints is easier than doing an entire engine on your own. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
    comment by BrendanEich · 2021-04-12 · in Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
  12. …version can be found in `package.json`, currently 90.0.4430.61, released 4 days ago [2]. [1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser [2]: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/releases/tag/90.0.4430....
    comment by xvector · 2021-04-11 · in Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
  13. We drop IP already when proxying a number of Google services, see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... . We've used Fastly in the past to drop IP, implemented using VCL. I believe we're using other vendors now as…
    comment by BrendanEich · 2021-03-04 · in Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling
  14. Are you worried about tracking in the Chromium code? If so please see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... . Otherwise if you are worried about engine monoculture, please see…
    comment by BrendanEich · 2021-03-04 · in Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling
  15. …here [1], it's much more than cookies. There is a Brave ticket here but not much has happened: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1053 [1] https://2019.www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#...
    comment by ubercow13 · 2021-01-20 · in IPFS Support in Brave
  16. …like to use Brave but there is a serious issue--users are unable to install non-store extensions. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/2457 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5761 (duplicate)
    comment by reedlaw · 2021-01-20 · in IPFS Support in Brave
  17. …concerns; we have excised quite a bit from Chromium. You can read about those changes [on GitHub]( https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... ). We also audit our network activity to make sure nothing ever slips out.…
    comment by jonathansampson · 2021-01-20 · in IPFS Support in Brave
  18. …ttps://github.com/ipfs-inactive/papers/blob/master/ipfs-cap... [1] https://github.com/ipld/specs/ [2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10220
    comment by mleonhard · 2021-01-20 · in IPFS Support in Brave
  19. …per platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux x64) each with a different component extension ID. [1] [0]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Components [1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10220
    comment by aarchi · 2021-01-19 · in IPFS Support in Brave
  20. Last few things missing for me to make the switch are: tree-style/nested vertical tabs ( https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/464 ) and firefox style per-tab sessions ( https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/34 ) Really…
    comment by jcstryker · 2021-01-19 · in IPFS Support in Brave
  21. …patches Chromium (as does Microsoft). You can read more about how we deviate from the project here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
    comment by jonathansampson · 2021-01-11 · in Getting Started with Brave
  22. Here's the telemetry documentation: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/P3A So it's sending some amount of telemetry, but it's not so bad compared to mainstream browsers. A more detailed comparison is available in this report…
    comment by beefee · 2021-01-11 · in Getting Started with Brave
  23. …dropping scripts and more onto your machine, the Web is quite a bit more enjoyable [1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost...
    comment by jonathansampson · 2020-12-13 · in Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader
  24. …of the problem; we're trying to reform the Web such that it remains free, equitable, and open. [1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
    comment by jonathansampson · 2020-12-13 · in Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader
  25. While we may experiment, it won't ever be a blackbox. The source is always available at github.com/brave/brave-browser and github.com/brave/brave-core. We'll be sure to document the process if it ever changes as well.
    comment by jonathansampson · 2020-12-13 · in Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader
  26. …worldwide Does this issue cause any administrative pain (inability to whitelist entire domains)? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5290
    comment by PKop · 2020-12-11 · in Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader
  27. …crypto from users under the false pretense of taking payment on behalf of content creators[2]. [1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9929 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brave_(web_browse...
    comment by 66fm472tjy7 · 2020-11-21 · in Cover Your Tracks
  28. We don't replace Google's account based tracking with anything of the kind. See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... In completely unrelated code paths, all open source, we have timing-channel blinded, few bits…
    comment by BrendanEich · 2020-11-06 · in Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
  29. …tomorrow for this :) If you don't want to wait, you can check out the pre-release version here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.16.71 Nightly already has the fix and Beta will get the fix when we finish uplifting…
    comment by bsclifton · 2020-11-03 · in Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
  30. …open test browser for normal browsing, I'm taken back to a gross dystopia of a web experience. [1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/projects/17 [2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3725
    comment by justsee · 2020-11-03 · in Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
  31. Fix for the CAPTCHA issue coming! There's a pre-release version out which you can try: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.16.71 Shooting to have the official version out today or tomorrow
    comment by bsclifton · 2020-11-02 · in Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
  32. …opt-out https://brave.com/privacy-preserving-product-analytics-p3a/ Here's a list of the telemetry https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/P3A
    comment by renewiltord · 2020-11-02 · in Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
  33. Relevant Brave (Chromium-based browser) bug discussion on exactly this: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1127 They merged in a (partial?) bug fix in 2019: https://github.com/brave/brave-ios/pull/883 The underlying problem…
    comment by Someone1234 · 2020-10-18 · in Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
  34. …it would be important to free the open source Chromium browser from Google's exclusive grip. [1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/4493#issuecomm...
    comment by dessant · 2020-10-11 · in Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup
  35. …of BAT for access. Although Brave uses Chrome's UA, I think we can ask Brave for it's actual UA - https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8216 I give WashP as an example because they are extremely anti adblock and most subscribers…
    comment by ffpip · 2020-09-07 · in Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
  36. 2 of those are simply bugs and the 3rd one was later fixed as well: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10129
    comment by chrisco255 · 2020-08-12 · in Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams
  37. Someone posted on the GH issue that someone posted the GH issue on HackerNews. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9929#issuecomm...
    comment by binaryblitz · 2020-07-06 · in Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
  38. …consent[2] or the recent redirection through affiliate links[3], this seems pretty tame. [1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8793 [2]: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br... [3]:…
    comment by girst · 2020-07-06 · in Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
  39. …without ref. This experience sucks, but at least the refs aren't fully hardcoded. Github issue: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10129
    comment by paulcarroty · 2020-06-07 · in The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
  40. Following it further we can even see the pull request and the requirements. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9302 Interesting as I didn’t realize Brave did all their development out in the open like this. “ Similar to top site…
    comment by javagram · 2020-06-07 · in The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
  41. Basically … No. Brave has all the Google integrations removed. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
    comment by mthoms · 2020-05-20 · in New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
  42. > Brave doesn’t make it easy to see the changes they made without installing the software https://github.com/brave/brave-browser > and likely having to buy their crypto to test it I have 24 BAT and I didn't buy them. I donate some of what…
    comment by ketamine__ · 2020-05-19 · in New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data
  43. …be able to reinvent the web with total freedom. View/modify PWA manifest on web-app/shortcut export https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7729
    comment by seph-reed · 2020-05-16 · in Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
  44. …crop up at any time[1]. [0]: https://community.brave.com/t/brave-sync-temporarily-disable... [1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7639
    comment by wilkystyle · 2020-02-26 · in Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
  45. Wrong: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... -- and that is just what we strip and stub. We add other value, but in any case, your "... with a different settings page" statement is on its face false.
    comment by BrendanEich · 2020-02-14 · in Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75
  46. …said they would fix this and then let the GitHub issue languish for at least a year at this point. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7758
    comment by smolder · 2020-01-23 · in “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
  47. …raid user privacy, and we strip out front end and middleware tracking from chromium/Blink. See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... . You have “who pays” exactly backwards about optional Brave Rewards in your…
    comment by BrendanEich · 2020-01-17 · in Mozilla lays off 70
  48. …to backup their claims ;) 1: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/wiki/Fingerprinting-... 2: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5614 3: https://github.com/w3cping/tracking-issues/issues 4:…
    comment by pes10k · 2019-12-28 · in Brave Isn't Bad
  49. …requests [1] to Google to ensure they do not get the details of the website you are visiting. 1. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Proxy-redirected...
    comment by turblety · 2019-12-25 · in Brave Isn't Bad
  50. …all to do with a company that does business through misrepresentation as a standard practice. [0] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/4641#issuecomm...
    comment by pushcx · 2019-12-07 · in Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch