This approach is called “Fingerprinting” (sometimes referred to as “Device Recognition”). More on Fingerprinting Protection.Įven without the use of cookies, some websites can identify the way your browser and device differ from others in order to recognize you based on your unique combination of these traits. Enabling this will improve our privacy a lot.
It can be set to Block all to improve privacy, but sometimes comfortability takes the choice.įingerprinting - Set to Block all Fingerprinting. The default is set to be disabled as most of the websites use Javascript and so do the trackers/ads (I intend to block it).Ĭookies - It is set to accept only the 1st party ones (the website the user is in), blocking all the other 3rd party cookies. Upgrade connections to HTTPS - It uses HTTPS Everywhere’s rule set to achieve this.īlock Scripts - Javascript in a website will be blocked (some websites may not work as intended). The default is set to Simple view, select the Advanced view to get more information shown in the bar.īlock cross-site trackers - Blocks advertisements and trackers that are in the sites. The Following are the ones that I have enabled/disabled:Įnabled Show autocomplete in address bar (uses some cookies to do so)ĭisabled Show top sites in autocomplete suggestions and Show Brave suggested sites in autocomplete suggestions (prevents the issue of brave referrals) Go through all the settings and enable/disable it as per your choice. To access the settings panel use can either type brave://settings in the address bar or use the hamburger section present in the right top to access it.Īll the settings are mostly intuitive.
But Brave can be configured a lot to improve both the security and privacy. Brave has an inbuilt adblocker that blocks almost all the third-party ads and trackers in the website. In this post I would like to share my browser configuration and the extensions that I use to make my life a little secure, private and easier.Īs I use Brave as my default browser most of the configuration will be according to it.īrave out-of-the-box is configured very neatly, for someone with basic needs may not need to tinker anything expect for the startup settings. Out of all the software/applications the mostly helpful and useful one is a Browser. The technology has advanced to a level that we can mostly access/use everything from our palms.
A Browser is what we use to access the Internet i.e.
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