How to protect and secure your web browsing with the Brave browser

 The Brave browser offers built-in protection against ad trackers, third-party cookies, and other potential threats to your privacy. Here's how to use it and tweak it.

You use one of the major browsers, such as Google Chrome or Firefox, and you want to keep your online activities private and protected. Those browsers offer certain security and privacy features, but to get the ultimate protection you may want to take the Brave browser for a spin. By default, Brave offers built-in ad blocking, secure HTTP, third-party cookie blocking, and browser fingerprint protection, among other features.

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Like Chrome, Brave is built on the Chromium browser and Blink engine, so it looks and feels like Chrome and even supports Chrome extensions. Brave offers an incentive to you and to content publishers: You can earn rewards by viewing ads that respect your privacy and pass on those rewards to publishers and content creators.