![]() Now there are plenty of sites that are abusing tracking scripts and cookies. I barely get any activity on Clicky though, and I hope it is because most of you are already using Brave or another privacy-focused browser to block it! Clicky merely gives me data like how many views a page is getting, what country my audience is from, what devices my site is being viewed from, etc. I chose Clicky because their analytics don’t give me anything that would expose your private information. I have Clicky analytics which Brave blocks by default. In fact, here on my site, you might notice that the Shields icon has the number “1” on it. These trackers aren’t always a bad thing. The blocking of trackers is done with Shields, so by having them enabled, you are blocking lots of analytics services and trackers that would record your activity. I think one of the easiest privacy wins to be had by switching to Brave is the Shields which can be enabled and disabled on a per-site basis. If this is a concern, choose one of the other options. Any choice other than the “Continue where you left off” choice will prevent someone with access to your machine from being able to open Brave and see what you were doing or looking at. If you really want to tinfoil hat yourself, at the bottom of this section is the “On startup” option, which has 3 choices. Here you can import bookmarks from another browser, set Brave as your default browser, and do a couple of other very basic things. ![]() There’s not a lot in the Get Started section you NEED to do. Let’s dig into Brave’s settings! Get Started That’s fine, the tinfoil-hat-wearing super-geek is here to help! ![]() At first glance, a few of these settings might not make sense. Again, I feel like their default state was likely chosen to make switching to Brave feel easier and more like your experience with Chrome. Still, they are a business, so I believe the social media companies may have some sort of business agreement with Brave to leave these settings enabled.Īpart from the social media settings, there are a handful of other settings you can change to further improve the privacy provided by Brave Browser. I mean, if you switched to Brave and nothing seemed to work, you’d likely switch back to your old browser. ![]() My best guess would be these settings are enabled by default so that your first experiences with Brave feel like your normal experience with Chrome. Some have speculated that they do this because of a contract between Brave and these social media companies. The thing is, Brave leaves some social media settings wide open. The difference is that they built their business around the idea of protecting your privacy, so even if you don’t dive into the settings, your privacy is still safer than if you were using the likes of Chrome, Edge, etc. Brave Browser’s Settings Aren’t Perfect By Defaultīrave is a business, just like the rest of them. This is a splendid start, and I congratulate you and taking some steps toward taking back your privacy! I thought that maybe, in this post, I can spend a few minutes helping you take the next steps in securing your Brave Browser experience even further. That said, I’ve seen data showing that apps and services like Brave Browser and DuckDuckGo are seeing huge upticks in users. Many people are waking up to the fact that their privacy barely exists and big tech companies are selling their data.
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