Update

Apparently this is patched out by Brave, but it is enabled by default. See u/Engywuck@lemm.ee 's comment below!

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Vanilla chromium gives google's websites special treatment by offering detailed CPU info, among other things. This is implemented through a hidden browser extension. You can prove this by yourself by running chrome.runtime.sendMessage("nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome", {method: "cpu.getInfo"}, (response) => {console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2)); }, ); on google.com through the browser console. For me, it gives the following info:

{ "value": { "archName": "x86_64", "features": [ "mmx", "sse", "sse2", "sse3", "ssse3", "sse4_1", "sse4_2", "avx" ], "modelName": "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz", "numOfProcessors": 4, "processors": [ { "usage": { "idle": 28238205, "kernel": 827581, "total": 32762960, "user": 3697174 } }, { "usage": { "idle": 1455131, "kernel": 743391, "total": 6209241, "user": 4010719 } }, { "usage": { "idle": 1448653, "kernel": 769970, "total": 6068506, "user": 3849883 } }, { "usage": { "idle": 1450274, "kernel": 744886, "total": 5948597, "user": 3753437 } } ], "temperatures": [] } }

Note that this doesn't work on other websites like lemmy.world, only google.

What I am confused about is that I can replicate this behavior in Brave. Why does brave reveal this information to google, and to google only? From what I understand, it can be used for fingerprinting and tracking. Shouldn't this be patched out? Is my testing methodology flawed? Will this be fixed?

Brave version: Version 1.67.123 Chromium: 126.0.6478.126 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit) running on linux via flatpak

I recently noticed when I received a login alert from a service provider, that @bravebrowser does not spoof the Operating System. That can, depending on your OS, enhance finger-printing and be a dead giveaway #BraveBrowser. There definitely needs to be an option to manually or automatically spoof the OS.

Basically I got tired of doing the same thing on Firefox for each computer so that the browser that is supposed to be private IS private (reconnect to the Firefox account, put back the user.js, get rid of Google etc...) knowing that, since I'm on iOS, the browser sucks (no ad blocking, poorly designed interface, etc...).

I knew there was Brave, but the sync function was too weird! Why not set up an account system??? But with this browser, everything is synchronized (even the search engine, except on mobile, but that's good enough), ads are blocked by default and my privacy is protected to the max. Thank you Brave!

Has anyone else noticed that the @washingtonpost has stepped up their paywall game? Accessing with cookies and Javascript disabled now only gives a short summary cc @bravebrowser

I've just started using Brave on Linux (distro info at bottom) and I have a question about keyboard shortcuts & how the browser manages active windows, because it seems to be doing something different from my last browser.

I usually use Firefox, and I've set it up so that I can open a new tab with the Mail key on my keyboard. Pressing my Mail key executes this command, opening a new tab.

xdotool getactivewindow key ctrl+t

But now I've switched to Brave browser, and that command no longer works. When I've got Brave open and I press my Mail key, nothing happens.

I've tried alternate commands:

xdotool key ctrl+t

and

xdotool getwindowfocus key ctrl+t

but no result. Does anyone know how to fix? What is Brave doing with its browser tabs/windows?

Thank you!

• Desktop: Linux Mint Xfce 4.18.1
• Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
• Ubuntu 22.04

Does anyone know if this has been reported yet, or how long these issues last for?

> The new "Answer with AI" feature returns neatly formatted answers for questions like "People who walked on the moon," "List of all actors who played Batman" or "How do descale Nespresso pixie."

The UK government's attempts to erode your online #privacy never cease. 🇬🇧🕵️

Luckily you've got Tuta in your corner! 🥊

We've teamed up with academics, #cybersecurity researchers, & other privacy oriented companies, like @element and @bravebrowser to fight back!

👉 https://cdt.org/insights/open-letter-from-security-experts-voices-concerns-over-the-proposed-changes-to-uk-investigatory-powers-acts-notices-regime/

I think for any Linux Distro or OEM to preinstall Brave, it needs to become more modular.

Is there a way to preset some specific settings like homepage, search Engine, some privacy settings etc

I think Brave is pretty solid, but also really bloated out of the box.

I am using the RPM on Fedora.

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Solutions found

• ~/.config/brave-flags.conf (derived from ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf) should work as a user.js
• /etc/brave/policies/managed/ (derived from /etc/chromium/policies/managed/) should allow to place policies which cant be overwritten by non-wheel users.

These are the solutions!

I really want to use my touchepad for histroy navigation like in firefox. How i can do this i using wayland !

I have recently noticed that videos will sometimes start with audio out of sync. After reload it loads just fine. In private tab with ad-blocking disabled it also works fine.

Has anyone noticed this. Could this be another attempt at making user experience "sub optimal" for adblock users?

Edit: I forgot to mention that I am talking about YouTube videos.

Vous avez déjà des messages de #youtube concernant le bloqueur de pub ? Je suis surpris de pas en avoir encore reçu (j'utilise ad blocker plus) ou par défaut sur @bravebrowser

Tanks. @brave @bravebrowser

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.

Brave on Linux, different?

Am I the only who thinks that @brave feels different on Linux than on Windows? Not only that some icons look different and that some defaults have different settings, why is "Forgetful Browsing" disabled in the flags (brave://flags), while it's already released on Windows and Android? I checked if I'm maybe using a older version, but nope. I use the same version of Brave as on Windows.

\#privacy #browser @bravebrowser

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

Just a reminder that the guy behind @bravebrowser @brave was kicked from Mozilla for being a bigoted piece of shit, and that he continues to be a piece of shit attacking the health care workers who saved millions of lives during the pandemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html

\#covid #brave #brendaneich

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.

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• 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.

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1.37.109

• [Security] Prevent Brave Wallet secrets potentially being saved to disk (credit: Halborn). (#21874)
• Added ability to add custom background images for New Tab Page. (#19640)
• Added ability to enable sidebar via brave://settings/appearance. (#21699)
• Added fee oracle for EIP-1559 to estimate priority fees in Brave Wallet. (#20469)
• Added swap functionality to Polygon network with 0x in Brave Wallet. (#21264)
• Added network icons under the various network selector buttons throughout Brave Wallet. (#20986)
• Added swaps for BSC, Avalanche, Optimism, Fantom, and Celo in Brave Wallet. (#21473)
• Added ability to disable Brave Wallet icon in the toolbar by right clicking and selecting "Hide Brave Wallet icon on toolbar". (#19514)
• Added ability to hide balances via "hide" button under Brave Wallet. (#20838)
• Added network identifications to portfolio assets in Brave Wallet. (#20902)
• Added tool-tip to send button in Brave Wallet when button is in a disabled state. (#21053)
• Added message in Brave Rewards that warns users they have 90 days to claim ad earnings and solve CAPTCHA. (#17133)
• Added ability to to override page elements with "!important" styles using cosmetic filtering. (#20177)
• Added current version of IPFS component extension to brave://ipfs. (#18493)
• Improved selection of RPC URLs after input from chainlist.org with variables and wss:// (Affects Arbitrum). (#20958)
• Improved the webcompat reporter. (#20095)
• Improved adblocking by applying generic cosmetic filters from brave://adblock into "Standard" shields blocking mode. (#20855)
• Updated PageInfo version 2 to support IPFS links. (#19421)
• Updated IPFS toolbar icon to match both "Tor" and "Onion Available" icons. (#21092)
• Updated IPFS DNSLink URL resolution to "<gateway>/ipns/<dnslink-domain>". (#20567)
• Moved IPNS menu items into a separate menu under the IPFS context menu. (#16998)
• Removed the "microsoft-edge" protocol from brave://settings/system. (#21553)
• Removed resize limitation for picture-in-picture windows. (#20789)
• Fixed DevTools setting changes not persisting once Brave is closed. (#20491)
• Fixed tipping with Gemini logging users out in certain cases. (#21591)
• Fixed update popup being displayed during the Sparkle update process on macOS. (#9562)
• Fixed transaction confirmation button in Brave Wallet not being disabled if estimated gas limit is zero. (#20259)
• Fixed Brave Wallet randomly crashing when current network is set as Arbitrum. (#21109)
• Fixed error when importing accounts using hardware wallets after Brave Wallet was reset via brave://settings/wallet. (#21137)
• Fixed the default wallet setting needing a new tab when moving from “Brave Wallet” setting to “Brave Wallet (prefer extensions)”. (#21571)
• Fixed styling issue in Brave Wallet that prevented the swap container from dynamically updating due to the errors being displayed. (#21061)
• Fixed addresses being duplicated when multiple keyrings are enabled in Brave Wallet. (#21015)
• Fixed various precision issues while formatting amounts in Brave Wallet. (#20994)
• Fixed transaction status not being updated in certain cases for pending transactions in Brave Wallet. (#21300)
• Fixed insufficient liquidity not being displayed on the swap button in Brave Wallet even though browser console logs the error. (#20467)
• Fixed assets with zero balance not being displayed in various panels in Brave Wallet. (#20955)
• Fixed URLs not being correctly redirected to the correct URL after unlocking Brave Wallet. (#19820)
• Fixed settings icon not being displayed correctly in Brave Wallet when dark theme is being used. (#20859)
• Fixed several Brave Wallet onboarding issues. (#19957)
• Fixed MetaMask importer being shown even though MetaMask wallet hasn't been created. (#20799)
• Fixed DNSLink redirecting to either IPNS or IPFS depending on whether a DNS-CNAME-to-IPFS or DNS-IPNS-to-IPFS redirect is involved. (#20320)
• Fixed IPFS onboarding does not validate postmessage origin. (#21234)
• Upgraded Chromium to 100.0.4896.60. (#21953) (Changelog for 100.0.4896.60)