Topic: Brave is a new privacy-first browser that can replace Chrome on all your devices

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Brave is a new privacy-first browser that can replace Chrome on all your devices

Our Features
Brave Browser Feature List



Shields

    Ad blocking
    Fingerprinting prevention*
    Cookie control*
    HTTPS upgrading*
    Block scripts*
    Per-site shield settings
    Configurable global shield defaults


Brave Rewards

    Earn by viewing private ads
    Tip your favorite creators
    Contribute monthly to sites
    Auto-contribute to sites
    Verify with Uphold and move funds in and out of your wallet
    Become a verified creator and start earning BAT from tips, contributions and referrals


Tabs & Windows

    Private Windows
    Pinned Tabs*
    Auto-unload*
    Drag and drop*
    Duplicate*
    Close Options
    Find on page
    Print page


Security

    Clear browsing data
    Built-in password manager
    Form autofill
    Control content access to full-screen presentation*
    Control site access to autoplay media
    Send “Do not track” with browsing requests


Search

    Choose default search engine
    Use keyboard shortcuts for alternate search engines*
    Option to use DuckDuckGo for private window search*


Extensions/Plugins

Brave Desktop now supports most of the Chrome extensions in the chrome web store

Address Bar

    Add Bookmark
    Autosuggest URLs
    Search from address bar
    Autosuggest search terms
    Show/hide bookmarks toolbar*
    Show secure or insecure site

*Features marked with an asterisk are pending on one or more platforms.

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Privacy is about individual autonomy and your right to be left alone. Knowledge about you grants some measure of power over you. Governments use information to arrest people, and place them on lists of who should and shouldn’t be able to exercise other basic rights. Corporations want to influence you in all sorts of ways: how you live, what you want, how you vote... And even individual people spy in order to blackmail, stalk, threaten, or peep. Privacy allows you to go about your life without having to constantly worry about how your actions will be misinterpreted or used against you in future. In a very real way, privacy gives you the freedom to be yourself.  ​Learn more.

Yes ​— Brave is free! You’ll always be able to use Brave without paying in either money or your personal information. Shields protects you from tracking as you browse the web. Brave Rewards lets you earn tokens by viewing ads and pays it forward to the people who create the stuff you love online. All for free. If you want to support sites in Brave without earning tokens through ads then you’ll have to use your own money. Everything else is on us — and ​Brave has a lot of features​.

Brave blocks invasive ads by default. If you turn on Brave Rewards, you can earn tokens for viewing Brave Ads. These ads aren’t like the ones you see on the web. They’re completely private: none of your personal info, browsing history or anything else ever leaves your device. That’s because Brave downloads the whole ad catalogue and selects the right ads for you locally on your device. And when you see an ad Brave picks for you, you earn 70% of what the advertiser paid, guaranteed. Brave Ads look like system notifications. They’re not distracting or intrusive, and they’re not mixed in with the pages you read online. And you get to pick how many, and how often to see them. ​Learn more.

When you use Brave Rewards, you earn Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) for each privacy-respecting ad Brave shows you. A typical, engaged person who uses Brave as their everyday browser can expect to earn ​about $5 of BAT a month.​ This figure will vary over time and by region, depending on a variety of factors.

Yes! Brave works with all the same extensions and themes as Chrome. Brave is based on the same open-source Chromium code as a number of other browsers, so your favorite extensions just work with Brave. We don’t host our own extensions store though, so for now the best place to find extensions is the Chrome Web Store​. Extensions are powerful ways to improve your Brave experience, but that power comes with responsibility. A malicious extension can seriously compromise your privacy and safety. Brave has taken an early look at multiple extensions to make sure they don’t have any of the most common problems — and Brave will warn you when you try to install an extension that hasn’t been checked out.

∗ Some restrictions apply in regions outside the US. Read more about Brave Rewards.

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