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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. You could consider using the admin policy for disabling the Tor functionality: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/454
    comment by bbondy · 2021-11-16 · in Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser
  2. …[2] I'm not sure if their CI artifacts are public or not. [1] https://brave.com/building-brave/ [2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5830
    comment by alexmcc81 · 2021-11-04 · in LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
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    Brave Browser uses 100% CPU when back end servers are down
    story by rbdeveloper · 2021-10-31 · 5 comments
  4. We do indeed use Chromium, though patched for security and privacy reasons (see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... ). I don't see how that's an ethical or technical mark against us, however. Early on we did…
    comment by jonathansampson · 2021-10-20 · in Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
  5. …would be paved in chrome That said, we patch as needed (for security and privacy purposes; see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-... ). With regards to 'Google results backfill', any competitor to Google has a lot…
    comment by jonathansampson · 2021-10-20 · in Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser
  6. It seems Brave tones down or deals with most of the creepy stuff in Chromium. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
    comment by xNeil · 2021-10-20 · in Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
  7. …security bug habitat and early bugs to shake out, until maintenance using bounties and fuzzing). https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
    comment by BrendanEich · 2021-09-22 · in Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing
  8. …ingrained in their codebase that you have to be pretty meticulous to wipe it all out on that level. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/14783
    comment by gmemstr · 2021-09-14 · in Firefox Browser: best for a free web
  9. …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
  10. …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
  11. 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
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. …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
  15. …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
  16. …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
  17. …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
  18. …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
  19. 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
  20. …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?
  21. 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
  22. 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
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    Native IPFS Support in Brave
    story by truth_seeker · 2021-01-21 · 1 comment
  24. …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
  25. …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
  26. …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
  27. …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
  28. …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
  29. 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
  30. …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
  31. 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
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    Unsolicited Advertisements from Brave Rewards
    story by resynth1943 · 2020-12-23 · 30 comments
  33. …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
  34. …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
  35. 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
  36. …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
  37. …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
  38. 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
  39. …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
  40. …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
  41. 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
  42. …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
  43. 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
  44. …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
  45. …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
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. …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
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    Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites
    story by turblety · 2020-07-06 · 199 comments
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    Archive.today and archive.is redirecting to GitHub for Brave users
    story by samizdis · 2020-06-20 · 2 comments