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Hardening Brave Browser

Network Pro Strategies (Network Pro™)
Last Updated: November 11, 2025

 

Table of Contents

1. Download Brave Browser
2. Turn Off Telemetry
3. Block Trackers & Ads
4. Block JavaScript
5. Block All Cookies
6. Enable Strict Fingerprinting Mode
7. Block Fingerprinting
8. Turn Off Social Media
9. Turn Off Usage Ping
10. Turn Off Web3 Notifications
11. Change Search Engine
12. Turn Off Save Passwords & Auto Sign-in
13. Change Appearance

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1. Download Brave Browser from Brave or GitHub

✅ brave/brave-browser

For managing privacy-centric browser installations and updates, we highly recommend FFUpdater:

• F-Droid: FFUpdater
• GitHub: Tobi823/ffupdater

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2. Off Telemetry ✅

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3. Block Trackers & Ads (Aggressive) ✅

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4. Block JavaScript ✅

Enable JavaScript for that site only when needed for trusted sites

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5. Block All Cookies ✅

Enable cross-site cookies for only that site when needed

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6. Enable Strict Fingerprinting Mode ✅

Strict fingerprinting protection is now a hidden feature

• Navigate to brave://flags and search for brave-show-strict-fingerprinting-mode
• Toggle the setting to Enabled and select the Relaunch button

 

7. Block Fingerprinting (Strict) ✅

Change to 'Fingerprinting blocked (Standard)' for only that site when needed for trusted sites

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8. Off Social Media & other privacy settings ✅

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9. Off Usage Ping ✅

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10. Off Web3 Notifications ✅

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11. Change Search Engine ✅

Brave Search or a self-hosted SearXNG instance is preferable. Avoid Google and Bing at all costs!

Other options, in no particular order:

• DuckDuckGo
• Mojeek
• Startpage
• Kagi¹

Ecosia is also supposedly a very good, privacy-centric search engine. We're not as familiar with Ecosia, so we can't recommend it, but it deserves mention.

¹ _{Kagi is a paid service. However, anecdotally we've heard the service is well worth the price.}

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12. Off Save Passwords & Auto Sign-in ✅

It is a best practice to utilize a password manager rather than the built-in browser password management.

Recommended password managers:

• Proton Pass (Proton AG)
• Bitwarden

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13. Change Appearance ✅

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Special thanks to the original publisher of this material, @[email protected].
Forked from piyushkumar-prog/Hardening-Brave-Browser.

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