privacy-settings/Privacy Settings/Brave-Privacy-Settings.md

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Brave Privacy Settings

Go to Settings

Appearance

  • Show top sites in autocomplete suggestions: Off
  • Show Brave suggested sites in autocomplete suggestions: Off
  • Always show full URLs: On

Shields

  • Default View: Advanced View
  • Trackers and ads blocking: Aggressive
  • Upgrade connection to HTTPS: On
  • Cookie blocking: Only cross-site
  • Fingerprinting blocking: Strict (If you face any issues with sites, change it back to standard)

Privacy and security

  • Autocomplete searches and URLs: Off
  • Use Google services for push messaging: Off
  • Allow privacy-preserving product analytics (P3A): Off
  • Automatically send daily usage ping to Brave: Off
  • Help improve Brave's features and performance: Off

Cookies and other site data

  • Block third-party cookies
  • Send a "Do Not Track" Request with your browser traffic: On

Security

  • Standard protection
  • Always use secure connections: On
  • Use secure DNS: With > Quad9, NextDNS, Cloudflare or select Custom and provide URL for other secure DNS from this list

Search engine

  • Search engine used in address bar: DuckDuckGo or any other privacy respecting search engine like Startpage etc.
  • Web Discovery Project: Off

Additional settings

Autofill

Passwords

  • Offer to save passwords: Off
  • Auto Sign-in: Off

NOTE: Never save passwords in browsers. Use a password manager instead. Check out Additional Resources for more info.

Payment methods

  • Save and fill payment methods: Off

NOTE: Never save payment info in browsers. A password manager can be used to also save payment information.

Addresses and more

  • Save and fill addresses: Off

Languages

  • Spell check: Off

Downloads

  • Ask where to save each file before downloading: On


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Background Image

  • Show Sponsored Images: Off

Brave News

  • Show Brave News: Off

Cards

  • Click Hide for all of them
  • Cards: Off