Brave for Android now lets you block annoying page elements with a tap
May 5, 2025
Brave for Android 1.78 introduces a new Shields option called Block Elements, which lets you tap any on-page annoyance and hide it
Cookiecrumbler: enhancing online privacy by automating cookie notice detection
Apr 24, 2025
Cookiecrumbler automates cookie notice detection using LLMs, enhancing Brave's privacy features while minimizing website breakage through scalable, region-specific blocking and community collaboration.
Using custom scriptlets to make the Web work the way you want
Feb 6, 2025
Starting with desktop version 1.75, advanced Brave users will be able to write and inject their own scriptlets into a page, allowing for better control over their browsing experience.
Procedural filtering for better adblocking
Nov 19, 2024
Starting with version 1.73, Brave is significantly improving its adblocking capabilities by adding support for procedural cosmetic filtering of page elements.
Delete site data instantly with the new Shred button on Brave iOS browser
Nov 18, 2024
Starting with iOS version 1.71, Brave is rolling out a way to quickly delete browsing data that sites can use to identify you across visits. It's called Shred.
Brave brings HTTPS by Default to iOS
Aug 21, 2024
Starting with version 1.68, Brave will become the first iOS Web browser to try to upgrade all sites to HTTPS by default.
Brave browser simplifies its fingerprinting protections
Jan 18, 2024
With desktop and Android version 1.64 in a couple of months, Brave will sunset Strict fingerprinting protection mode.
Localhost Resource Permission
Jun 27, 2023
Starting in version 1.54, Brave for desktop and Android will include more powerful features for controlling which sites can access local network resources, and for how long.
Request "Off the Record"
May 24, 2023
Request OTR is another in Brave's suite of features that support the privacy needs of individual users, protecting far beyond the "standard" threats browsers typically watch out for.
Forgetful Browsing
May 11, 2023
Forgetful Browsing is similar to, but more powerful and protective than, popular browsing extensions and private browsing modes. It's another example of Brave offering the most powerful privacy features of any popular browser.
"Google Sign-In" Permission
Mar 6, 2023
Starting in version 1.51, Brave will increase user privacy by extending the brower's permission system to cover legacy Google Sign-In…
Grab bag 5: "Open in App" annoyances, further pool-party protections, and more…
Feb 23, 2023
Starting in version 1.49 on Android and desktop (available since version 1.44 for iOS), Brave will hide "open in app" annoyances that appear on many websites.
HTTPS by Default
Feb 9, 2023
Starting in version 1.50, Brave will include a new feature called “HTTPS by Default” that improves Web security and privacy by increasing HTTPS use.
Blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners
Sep 28, 2022
New versions of Brave will hide—and, where possible, completely block—cookie consent notifications. Brave's approach is distinct and more privacy-preserving than similar systems used in other browsers.
Grab bag 4: privacy improvements for our iOS browsers make them best-in-class with leading protections
Aug 16, 2022
Recent versions of Brave on iOS include many new privacy features, ensuring that Brave iOS users have the strongest available protections of any iOS browser.
STAR: Brave’s new system for privacy-preserving data collection
Jul 19, 2022
Brave's new system STAR protects user privacy by ensuring the data users contribute are never unique to that user. This property, sometimes called k-anonymity, ensures that the data collector can only see a submitted value if the same value has also been submitted by some number of other users.
De-AMP: cutting out Google and enhancing privacy
Apr 19, 2022
Brave is rolling out a new feature called De-AMP, which allows Brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages, and instead visit the content's publisher directly.
Protecting against browser-language fingerprinting
Apr 1, 2022
Brave has further strengthened its fingerprinting protections by preventing users from being identified based on preferred browser language. Starting with version 1.39, Brave randomizes how your browser informs sites of what language(s) you’ve set as default, and what fonts you have installed on your system.
"Unlinkable bouncing" for more protection against bounce tracking
Mar 8, 2022
Brave is shipping a new, powerful privacy-protecting feature called Unlinkable Bouncing. This feature protects your privacy by noticing when you're about to visit a privacy harming site, and instead routes that visit through a new, temporary browser storage.
Grab bag 3: fixing pool-party, improving fingerprinting protections, more debouncing, and less Chromium
Jan 7, 2022
Brave continues to ship the most aggressive and broad privacy protections available in any popular browser. Starting in Brave 1.35, Brave includes protections against all known practical forms of “pool-party” attacks.
