Hardening-Brave-Browser

1. Download Brave Browser from Brave or GitHub ✅
   • GitHub: brave/brave-browser

For managing privacy-centric browser installations and updates, we highly recommend FFUpdater:

• F-Droid: FFUpdater
• GitHub: Tobi823/ffupdater

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2. Off Telemetry ✅
   

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3. Block Trackers & Ads (Aggressive) ✅
   

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4. Block JavaScript ✅
   Enable JavaScript for that site only when needed for trusted sites
   

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5. Block All Cookies ✅
   Enable cross-site cookies for only that site when needed

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6. Enable Strict Fingerprinting Mode ✅
   Strict fingerprinting protection is now a hidden feature

   • Navigate to brave://flags and search for "brave-show-strict-fingerprinting-mode"

   

 

7. Block Fingerprinting (Strict) ✅
   Change to 'Fingerprinting blocked (Standard)' for only that site when needed for trusted sites
   

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8. Off Social Media & other privacy settings ✅
   

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9. Off Usage Ping ✅
   

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10. Off Web3 Notifications ✅
    

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11. Change Search Engine ✅
    

Brave Search or a self-hosted SearXNG instance is preferred. Avoid Google and Bing at all costs!

Other options, in order of privacy reputation:

• SearXNG
• Kagi¹
• Mojeek
• Startpage
• DuckDuckGo²

Ecosia is also supposedly a very good, privacy-centric search engine. We're not as familiar with this one, 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.}

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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:

• Proton Pass (Proton AG)
• Bitwarden

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13. Change Appearance ✅
    

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Special thanks to the original publisher of this material, @[email protected]. Forked from piyushkumar-prog/Hardening-Brave-Browser.

 

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