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Hardening Brave Browser

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 ✅
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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 ✅
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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
Toggle the setting to Enabled and select the Relaunch button

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

Other options, in order of privacy reputation:

SearXNG

Mojeek

Startpage

Kagi¹

DuckDuckGo²

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.}

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12. Off Save Passwords & Auto Sign-in ✅
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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, @finalboss@mas.to.
Forked from piyushkumar-prog/Hardening-Brave-Browser.