Aug 27, 2026
Starting with desktop version 1.94, Brave is offering Email Aliases to let you sign up for online services without revealing your personal email address. Aliases forward to your primary inbox, helping reduce spam and break cross-site tracking.
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Starting in version 1.93, Brave is rolling out new protections against GPU and graphics-driver fingerprinting, de-identifying WebGL vendor and renderer strings and adding noise to the list of supported extensions.
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Starting with version 1.89, Brave for Android brings Shred from iOS, so you can clear one site's data without logging out of others, with optional Auto Shred on tab or browser close.
Read this articleJan 5, 2026
Brave has overhauled its Rust-based adblock engine to reduce memory consumption by 75%, bringing better battery life and smoother multitasking to all users.
Read this articleJul 22, 2025
Starting in version 1.81 for Windows users, Brave browser will block Microsoft Recall from automatically taking screenshots of your browsing activity.
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Brave for Android 1.78 introduces a new Shields option called Block Elements, which lets you tap any on-page annoyance and hide it
Read this articleApr 24, 2025
Cookiecrumbler automates cookie notice detection using LLMs, enhancing Brave's privacy features while minimizing website breakage through scalable, region-specific blocking and community collaboration.
Read this articleFeb 6, 2025
Starting with desktop version 1.75, advanced Brave users will be able to write and inject their own scriptlets into a page, allowing for better control over their browsing experience.
Read this articleNov 19, 2024
Starting with version 1.73, Brave is significantly improving its adblocking capabilities by adding support for procedural cosmetic filtering of page elements.
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Starting with iOS version 1.71, Brave is rolling out a way to quickly delete browsing data that sites can use to identify you across visits. It's called Shred.
Read this articleAug 21, 2024
Starting with version 1.68, Brave will become the first iOS Web browser to try to upgrade all sites to HTTPS by default.
Read this articleJan 18, 2024
With desktop and Android version 1.64 in a couple of months, Brave will sunset Strict fingerprinting protection mode.
Read this articleJun 27, 2023
Starting in version 1.54, Brave for desktop and Android will include more powerful features for controlling which sites can access local network resources, and for how long.
Read this articleMay 24, 2023
Request OTR is another in Brave's suite of features that support the privacy needs of individual users, protecting far beyond the "standard" threats browsers typically watch out for.
Read this articleMay 11, 2023
Forgetful Browsing is similar to, but more powerful and protective than, popular browsing extensions and private browsing modes. It's another example of Brave offering the most powerful privacy features of any popular browser.
Read this articleMar 6, 2023
Starting in version 1.51, Brave will increase user privacy by extending the brower's permission system to cover legacy Google Sign-In…
Read this articleFeb 23, 2023
Starting in version 1.49 on Android and desktop (available since version 1.44 for iOS), Brave will hide "open in app" annoyances that appear on many websites.
Read this articleFeb 9, 2023
Starting in version 1.50, Brave will include a new feature called “HTTPS by Default” that improves Web security and privacy by increasing HTTPS use.
Read this articleSep 28, 2022
New versions of Brave will hide—and, where possible, completely block—cookie consent notifications. Brave's approach is distinct and more privacy-preserving than similar systems used in other browsers.
Read this articleAug 16, 2022
Recent versions of Brave on iOS include many new privacy features, ensuring that Brave iOS users have the strongest available protections of any iOS browser.
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