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1. Download Brave Browser from Brave or GitHub:
✅ brave/brave-browser
For managing privacy-centric browser installations and updates, we highly recommend FFUpdater:
- F-Droid: FFUpdater
- GitHub: Tobi823/ffupdater
2. Off Telemetry ✅
3. Block Trackers & Ads (Aggressive) ✅
4. Block JavaScript ✅
Enable JavaScript for that site only when needed for trusted sites
5. Block All Cookies ✅
Enable cross-site cookies for only that site when needed
6. Enable Strict Fingerprinting Mode ✅
Strict fingerprinting protection is now a hidden feature
- Navigate to
brave://flagsand search forbrave-show-strict-fingerprinting-mode - Toggle the setting to
Enabledand select theRelaunchbutton
7. Block Fingerprinting (Strict) ✅
Change to 'Fingerprinting blocked (Standard)' for only that site when
needed for trusted sites
8. Off Social Media & other privacy settings ✅
9. Off Usage Ping ✅
10. Off Web3 Notifications ✅
11. Change Search Engine ✅
Brave Search or a self-hosted SearXNG instance is preferable. Avoid Google and Bing at all costs!
Other options, in order of privacy reputation:
Ecosia is also supposedly a very good, privacy-centric search engine. We're not as familiar with Ecosia, so we can't recommend it, but it deserves mention.
1 Kagi is a paid service. However, anecdotally we've heard the service is well worth the price.
2 DDG's privacy reputation has taken a hit of late. Based on available sources, it seems DDG utilizes Bing [Google?] results on the back end.
12. Off Save Passwords & Auto Sign-in ✅
It is a best practice to utilize a password manager rather than the built-in browser password management.
Recommended password managers:
13. Change Appearance ✅
Special thanks to the original publisher of this material,
@finalboss@mas.to.
Forked from
piyushkumar-prog/Hardening-Brave-Browser.
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