New browser: Brave

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Want true privacy? You need to check out this browser

Brave, a new web browser challenging bigger rivals like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, wants to take privacy on the internet to the next level.

Like all other browsers, Brave includes a "private browsing" option that leaves no traces of online activity on your computer and makes websites think you've never visited before. But the startup is working on adding a new level of protection to its private tabs by incorporating the Tor Project's network identity-hiding technology.

Yan Zhu, a Brave programmer whose long history of privacy and security projects includes encrypted email at Yahoo and some work on Tor's software, is leading Brave's Tor work.

"This new browsing mode will give the user better protection from local surveillance, such as by their internet service provider or other users on a shared Wi-Fi network," she said.

Already downloaded it but didn't install it yet.

 

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Trying it today.

 

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Trying it today.

Doing it now.

But the startup is working on adding a new level of protection to its private tabs by incorporating the Tor Project's network identity-hiding technology.

Couldn't find it in the settings.
Maybe a few weeks time it'll be available.

 

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I use the TOR browser occasionally. No opinion on Brave yet, got too many things going on here, but it works, imported from FF easily.

 

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imported from FF easily.

I imported my favourites from IE, they are in the same order as they were in IE.
Cannot use Norton's password manager but Dashlane is fine.