It also doesn't include the telemetry services that Google uses to see how people use Chrome. One of them is the disabling of the Google account and sync services at the center of privacy concerns that arose this week. The Brave Core beta is based on Google Chrome's open-source Chromium underpinnings but makes several changes. The Tor Project offers its own browser based on Mozilla's Firefox. However, the Brave Core beta hasn't been fully tested to make sure it doesn't leak information, though, so 'so users should not rely on it for serious use yet,' Brave said. That keeps websites from logging anything about you, including your computer's internet address. Tor uses technology called onion routing that separates your computer from the website it's communicating with by sending network traffic through three intermediate servers. Brave blocks ads and ad trackers, Safari's newly upgraded intelligent tracking protection cuts tracking and Mozilla's Firefox will get some tracking blocking as a standard feature. On Thursday, Brave released the first Brave Core beta and added that Tor technology to the new version.īrave's incorporation of Tor technology spotlights the increasing assertiveness of browsers to protect us from online prying and spying. The new version, though, lacked support for the Tor privacy technology. Brave, the ad-blocking browser in the midst of a major overhaul, once again has an option for private tabs augmented by the Tor Project's technology for keeping websites from tracking you online.īrave earlier this month launched an overhauled version, Brave Core, that looks a lot more like the Google Chrome browser on whose open-source foundation Brave is built.

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