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Brave Browser

A privacy-focused web browser based on Chromium.

Brave is a Chromium-based browser with built-in ad and tracker blocking. Standard browsing usage requires no extensions or configuration to get aggressive privacy: Brave Shields blocks ads, third-party trackers, fingerprinting, and many other privacy-relevant behaviours by default. A private-window-with- Tor feature routes incognito traffic through Tor onion routing.

Optional features layer on top: Brave Rewards is an opt-in system that pays users in BAT (Basic Attention Token) for viewing privacy-respecting ads, Brave Search runs an independent search index, Brave Talk hosts video calls, and Brave Wallet supports Ethereum and Solana. The browser itself is open source under MPL-2.0; the optional services involve Brave Inc.'s servers and BAT cryptocurrency.

Brendan Eich, the original creator of JavaScript and a co- founder of Mozilla, started Brave in 2016. The browser has captured a noticeable share of privacy-focused users and is one of the few non-Chromium-based... actually it is Chromium-based itself, but with substantially more aggressive privacy defaults than Google's own Chrome.

Debian/Ubuntu: see https://brave.com/linux/
Fedora/RHEL:   sudo dnf install brave-browser
Flatpak:       flatpak install flathub com.brave.Browser
macOS:         brew install --cask brave-browser