Brave
has just announced the deployment of a new feature aimed at better protecting the privacy of its users. Baptized ” Unlikable Bouncing », it has been specially developed to circumvent bounce tracking.
This practice allows websites to circumvent the privacy protection methods implemented on browsers in order to obtain information about Internet users.
Suspicious site visit is placed in new temporary storage
Brave’s new feature allows it to identify if a site is collecting personal data, and if so, it will then be placed in a kind of security lock to prevent it from stealing information. Concretely, Unlikable Bouncing routes the user’s visit through a new temporary storage in the browser.
” This prevents the site from identifying you by linking your fingerprint to that of previous visits, but allows the site to function normally. Essentially, each visit appears as a unique first visit, making your digital footprint anonymous says Brave in a blog post. The firm also specifies that this temporary storage is deleted when you leave the suspicious site, which will prevent it from identifying the user again.
The browser has already implemented three other features to protect against bounce tracking. The latter will be fully deployed with version 1.37 of the browser.
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- Accessible to inexperienced Internet users and suitable for a more demanding audience
- Impeccable private data security
- Willingness to break free from existing monopolies (Brave Search, Talk, News, Ads)
Despite its youth (five years of existence, of which only two in stable version), Brave seriously competes with the greatest. Clever enough to delegate the development of its interface and its basic options to Chromium teams, the browser takes advantage of these savings in time and money to focus on more than important features with regard to the management of personal data in line. From this strategy were born an independent search engine, a fair sharing program for privacy-respecting advertising revenues, secure communication tools and innovative navigation functions, initiating an effective transition to a decentralized, more open and more accessible web. free. The only downside: performance below the promises made by Brave.
Despite its youth (five years of existence, of which only two in stable version), Brave seriously competes with the greatest. Clever enough to delegate the development of its interface and its basic options to Chromium teams, the browser takes advantage of these savings in time and money to focus on more than important features with regard to the management of personal data in line. From this strategy were born an independent search engine, a fair sharing program for privacy-respecting advertising revenues, secure communication tools and innovative navigation functions, initiating an effective transition to a decentralized, more open and more accessible web. free. The only downside: performance below the promises made by Brave.
Source: Brave
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