How to use Brave’s tools to protect your privacy while browsing

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Brave, which came out of beta last fall, is a browser with a difference. Aggressively anti-advertising, the Chromium-based browser strips sites of their ads while arrogation users to opt in to its own set of anonymized advertising. It is moreover actual open in its publicize of user privacy.

Deal with trackers

Brave provides a wide rondure of security settings that can be tweaked, depending on your concerns and how you kumtux to even-steven privacy versus convenience.

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It uses a fondness conscript Shields to cake most ads and the trackers they carry. The utensil blocks third-party trackers and any ads that use third-party trackers by default, and makes the browser harder to recognize. You can cake first-party cookies or ads manually.

Adjust your tracking settings

To modulate your Bouncer settings:

• Go to your Settings page. You can albeit this by clicking the cog figure at the bottom right of the new tab page or by clicking the three-line figure in the top right corner and clicking on Settings. Baddest Shields.
• There are two types of default settings awaited on the Bouncer page: Simple View and Anticipative View. These inflict what you will see when you click on the lynx figure to the right of the greet bar.
• Here you can moreover toggle "Block cross-site trackers" on or off, cake scripts, and modulate your cookie settings to either "Only cake cross-site cookies," "Block all cookies," or "Allow all cookies."

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• Now when you appetite to see what types of trackers are stuff dead-end or immune on a specific site, or to modernity your settings for that site, you artlessly kumtux to click on the lynx figure to get an newsy drop-down window.
• If you co-opt Simple View, you will see the number of trackers stuff blocked; you can moreover toggle Bouncer off (if it's causing any problems with the site you're on). In Anticipative View, you can moreover see if any scripts were blocked, or click on "Cross-site trackers blocked" to see a litany of individualistically trackers dead-end by Brave.
• Using links at the bottom of the drop-down window, you can toggle enclosed the Simple and Anticipative wile or modernity your all-around absorber defaults.

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The process of fine-tuning your cookie settings is actual much like that of Chrome, spine Dauntless is moreover a Chromium-based browser:

• Go to Settings and click on "Additional Settings" in the left-hand or central menu.
• Select "Privacy and Security." Find and baddest "Site Settings" in the equidistant menu.
• Click on "Cookies and site data."
• To specify which sites has to be either constantly permitted to or constantly prevented from autumn cookies on your browser, click on the "Add" button next to "Allow" or "Block," respectively.
• Toggle the switch-over next to "Clear cookies and site data when you renounce Brave" to frustrate cookies and other data every time you moisture the browser.
• Click "See all cookies and site data" for other granular information. To frustrate cookies by site, click on the trash can figure next to the site name. To see individualistically cookies, click on the pointer next to the site name. You can then frustrate those cookies by clicking the "X" next to each cookie.

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Clean up your cookies

You can moreover articulated your cookies recurring with other browsing data:

• Go to Settings > Privacy and Security.
• Click on "Clear Browsing Data."
• A subside window will open with three options. "Basic" and "Advanced" will let you frustrate data currently stored on your browser, while "On exit" will let you specify what you appetite to frustrate each time you finish browsing.
• In either "Basic" or "Advanced," baddest an pragmatism from the "Time range" drop-down menu. Manufacture sure the box next to "Cookies and other site data" has been called and then click "Clear data."
• In "On exit," baddest "Cookies and other site data," and then click Save. You can moreover articulated out other data on exit, such as your download and browsing histories.

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Fingerprinting and ad-blocking

Protection contrariwise fingerprinting is included as percentage of Brave's toolbox and can be adjusted utilizing the Bouncer fondness in Anticipative View. Conscript Device Recognition, there are three modes that you can use. The default is "Cross-site device recognition blocked" which, according to Brave, personally permits first-party attempts at fingerprinting. "Device recognition attempts blocked" will stop all attempts at fingerprinting (which could cop-out problems with some sites), while "All device recognition attempts allowed" basically allows everything through.

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While Dauntless automatically blocks third-party ads by default, it has moreover created its own ad strategy by offering what it calls Dauntless Ads, which shepherd as push notifications that you can foist with or dismiss. If you do co-opt to view one of these ads, you receive a token that you can use to "reward publishers and content creators," according to the site directions.

If you appetite to participate, you can opt in to Dauntless Ads by clicking on the three-line menu in the high right corner and then on "Brave Rewards."

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