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Much more than a browser, Brave is a new way of thinking about how the web works. Brave is open source and built by a team of privacy focused, performance oriented pioneers of the web. Brave loads major news sites 2 to 8 times faster than Chrome/Safari on mobile and 2 times faster than Chrome on desktop. Popular sites often host multiple ads and as many as 70 trackers per site. Worse, most leading ad blockers still allow trackers through to profile your location, behavior and other browsing activity.

Features:

Load pages 2x faster on desktop and up to 8x faster on mobile.
Watch Brave in action, head-to-head-to-head against Chrome and Firefox. Brave loads pages twice as fast out of the box with nothing to install, learn or manage.

Experience unparalleled privacy and security.
Brave fights malware and prevents tracking, keeping your information safe and secure. It’s our top priority.

Support your favorite sites with Brave Rewards.
Activate Brave Rewards (available on desktop only) and give a little back to the sites you frequent most. Help fund the content you love – even when you block ads.

Browsing the web with Brave is free: with Brave Rewards activated, you can support the content creators you love at the amount that works for you.

Brave can automatically distribute your contributions based on how much time you spend on sites. Or, you can choose to tip sites directly, and even offer a fixed monthly tip amount.

All of this works while keeping your browsing history private. Your funds are made available to site owners through an anonymous ledger system, so you can’t be identified based on the sites you visit and support. Over 10,000 publishers and content creators have registered to receive Brave Rewards.

Remember: these contributions are optional – browsing the web with Brave is free.

Brave Browser Feature List:

Shields:
Ad blocking
Fingerprinting prevention*
Cookie control*
HTTPS upgrading*
Block scripts*
Per-site shield settings
Configurable global shield defaults

Search:
Choose default search engine
Use keyboard shortcuts for alternate search engines*
Option to use DuckDuckGo for private window search*

Security:
Clear browsing data
Built-in password manager
Form autofill
Control content access to full-screen presentation*
Control site access to autoplay media
Send “Do not track” with browsing requests

Tabs & Windows:
Private Windows
Pinned Tabs*
Auto-unload*
Drag and drop*
Duplicate*
Close Options
Find on page
Print page

Address Bar:
Add Bookmark
Autosuggest URLs
Search from address bar
Autosuggest search terms
Show/hide bookmarks toolbar*
Show secure or insecure site

Extensions/Plugins:
Brave Desktop now supports most of the Chrome extensions in the chrome web store