Temporary whitelist until we find a better solution The post points to a code commit on Brave’s GitHub repository from April 2017 that includes the following code:Ĭonst whitelistHosts = Yet a post on the YCombinator Hacker News site reveals that the browser has whitelisted at least two social media sites known to be aggressive about slurping user data: Facebook and Twitter. You can allow ads and trackers in the preferences panel. ![]() Users can also credit publishers that they like with the tokens.Īds and trackers are blocked by default. It rewards users for this with an Ethereum blockchain-based token called the Basic Attention Token (BAT). ![]() It then gives users the option to receive ads by signalling basic information about their intentions to advertisers, but only with user permission. ![]() Rather than allowing advertisers to track its users, the browser blocks ad trackers and instead leaves users’ browsing data encrypted on their machines. ![]() Instead of just serving up user browsing data to advertisers, its developers designed it to put control in the users’ hands. Launched in 2016, Brave is a browser that stakes its business model on user privacy. Privacy-conscious web browser company Brave was busy trying to correct the record this week after someone posted what looked like a whitelist in its code allowing its browser to communicate with Facebook from third-party websites.
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