Brave browser adds private tabs with Tor for ‘enhanced privacy protection’
The ad-blocking web browser Brave introduced a new feature in which private tabs use the anonymity software Tor to provide users with “enhanced privacy protection,” the company announced Thursday. Brave’s new private tabs feature, currently in beta, follows the beginnings of an effort from Mozilla to accomplish a similar goal in its Firefox browser. Launched in 2016, Brave itself is a niche open-source browser with ambitious and sometimes unique goals, including blocking ads while still paying content creators directly from users themselves. The new Brave feature can be activated now by downloading the software, clicking the file menu and then clicking New Private Tab with Tor. “Normal” private tabs that don’t employ Tor are still available. Here’s a video of the new feature in beta: “Private Tabs with Tor help protect Brave users from ISPs (Internet Service Providers), guest Wi-Fi providers, and visited sites that may be watching their Internet connection or even tracking and collecting IP addresses, a […]
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