Brave Browser Discussion & Update Thread

Ecosia is now an Official Search Engine Option on Brave
January 28, 2021
https://brave.com/ecosia/

Neowin: Ecosia becomes a default search provider in Brave browser

 

World's non profit biggest engine? Stated where? How come I never heard of it

 

I just ran that test and got a leak with MS Edge. I don't have my Mullvad VPN setup at the moment. So I used my AdGuard VPN. Brave showed two leaks and Edge showed one.

EDIT: Nice work. I missed the post that this has been fixed and an upcoming update. Cheers!

 

Brave Browser v1.19.90 Released (February 3, 2021)
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Forum: Release Channel 1.19.90

 

Brave Browser v1.19.92 Released (February 5, 2021)
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Forum: Release Channel 1.19.92

 

Brave browser adds native support for uBlock and Fanboy annoyances lists and social list
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/02/10/b...-and-fanboy-annoyances-lists-and-social-list/

 

Brave Browser 1.20.103 Released (February 10, 2021)
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Forum: Release Channel 1.20.103

Spoiler: Changes 1.20.103

1.20.103

• Added extension support for Tor windows. (#2761)
• Added "IPFS public gateway address" setting under brave://settings/extensions. (#11563)
• Added "Redirect IPFS resources to the configured IPFS gateway" setting under brave://settings/extensions. (#11564)
• [Security] Enabled Safety Tips component. (#12999)
• [Security] Removed connection to accounts.google.com when enabling Brave Sync. (#12984)
• [Security] Fixed Greaselion being enabled by default in private mode. (#13506)
• [Security] Fixed Crypto Wallets being enabled by default in private mode. (#13279)
• [Security] Fixed mixed content connections not being auto-upgraded when available. (#10190)
• [Security] Fixed Tor Onion-Location header issue as reported on HackerOne by Muneaki Nishimura. (#13828)
• Implemented onboarding tour for Brave Rewards. (#12459)
• Enabled Crowd Deny component. (#13426)
• Enabled Widevine component updater on Linux. (#7081)
• Updated macOS application icons. (#13005)
• Disabled Wayback Machine infobar on Wayback Machine URLs. (#13306)
• Removed unsupported components from brave://components. (#8709)
• Fixed webview crash on exiting brave://adblock in certain cases. (#13775)
• Fixed intermittent crash in Greaselion service on shutdown. (#13906)
• Fixed in-line tip buttons being displayed when the Brave Rewards icon is hidden. (#13341)
• Fixed inability to create sync chain due to leading and trailing whitespace in code words. (#10860)
• Fixed automatic update failing for Google components. (#10464)
• Fixed autoplay blocked indicator incorrectly being displayed in certain cases. (#13167)

 

Thanks for the heads up @anon and @mood

 

The BRAVE leak is still there.
My Brave is deactivated for now.

 

Brave is currently in version 1.20. According to Sampson the fix might arrive in version 1.21

 

Brave privacy bug exposes Tor onion URLs to your DNS provider
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...-exposes-tor-onion-urls-to-your-dns-provider/

 

I just tested and I do not see a leak. Strange.

 

Check your version, apparently 1.20.108 fixes the issue

 

I've just checked my Brave.
Version 1.20.108 Chromium: 88.0.4324.182 (Official Build) (64-bit)

It's LEAKING!

 

How are you checking this? I tried Browserleaks, and the leak seems fixed so far.

 

Same question goes for me.

 

I haven't seen any leaks with Brave with AirVPN and their network lock.
EDIT: Both with Browserleaks and IPleak(also the torrent test.)

 

Same here minus the fact that I use Mullvad VPN.

 

I have rechecked my Brave.
It was leaking, but...
I've started checking all my extensions and eventually I've found out that the "culprit" was the extension, WebRTC protect.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webrtc-protect-protect-ip/bkmmlbllpjdpgcgdohbaghfaecnddhni

I have replaced it with WebRTC Leak Shield, and my Brave stopped leaking.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webrtc-leak-shield/bppamachkoflopbagkdoflbgfjflfnfl

 

As I've mentioned previously, I have a few VPN apps, but, in addition to the desktop VPN apps (just in case) I use a paid VPN proxy extension (extensions) as some additional "security blanket".

 

@zmechys Glad you were able to sort it out.

 

https://brave.com/latest/

 

I've checked Brave with BrowserAudit.
It has indicated one "critical" issue - "cookie set by JavaScript should not be sent over HTTP"
Is it the user's or Brave's fault about that "critical" problem?
Should Brave try to fix it?

 

Edge and Vivaldi give the same results as Brave.

 

I don't care about Edge.
I, kind of, care about Vivaldi.
I do like Brave.
And I like Brave just because the Brave makers listen to us in order to create a truly-safe browser.
It would be interesting to see, maybe, Brave could help their 20 million users.