Brave Browser will allow you to hide browsing history

Brave has announced that it will implement a new feature in its web browser, with which users will be able to hide their browsing history and behavior from others who also use it.

Brave is a private web browser created by the inventor of Javascript programming and also the co-creator of Mozilla and Firefox, Brendan Eich, which came to users in November 2019 that focuses on privacy. The company is aware that browsers record a large amount of information about our browsing behavior and interests, both explicitly: history, cookies, and more; and implicitly: cache and URL autocompletion, among other factors.

While browsers offer some solutions to help these users hide their activity, such as incognito windows, Brave considers these to be insufficient and ineffective. “Existing tools hide too much (inviting abusers to be suspicious), too little (allowing abusers to recover browsing history) or difficult to use successfully,” it said in a statement.

Thus, it has announced that from its latest version (1.53), the browser will have a functionality that reinforces privacy and that will allow users to hide their digital footprint, which is called ‘Unofficial Request’ (OTR). This functionality will serve, for example, so that a person who is a victim of gender violence can find support services without their aggressor being aware of it. People who provide personal medical care and who do not want to reveal it in the family environment may also do so.

Brave has commented that requesting OTR allows websites to optionally describe their content as ‘sensitive’. Once indicated that it is, the browser can ask the user if they want to visit this web page in OTR mode or not. “Sites that are visited in OTR mode are not stored in your browsing history and cookies, permissions and other data from these are not kept on disk,” the company has qualified in this writing.

With Request OTR, Brave ensures that it will keep the user protected “all the time”, since the user will not have to delete their browsing history once the search is finished or worry about doing it in incognito mode. With this, it has indicated that web pages interested in receiving OTR must make a formal request so that, once users access them, they receive a notification asking them if they wish to visit them in hidden mode.

The company has also clarified that this filter cannot hide, on the contrary, ‘malware’ and ‘spyware’ installed on the device, browser extensions or espionage on the network.

Brave has finally commented that it intends to work with other browser providers to standardize this system so that users can “have privacy and security throughout the web, regardless of the browser they are using.” It has insisted that it is a version only available for testers, so it will improve this service as it receives feedback from users who try it.

Source: dpa

(Reference image source: Rubaitul Azad, Unsplash)

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