Brave Browser

Guide for iOS users.

This is basically Braves Testparcours besides the internal tests they go trough, this is how you quickly can verify several things if they work as intended or not. Each test and how you run them properly is described in brief.

1.35.101

• Fixed issues with "Desktop mode" which prevented users from being able to view websites in desktop mode. (#20963)
• Fixed phone model being leaked via "navigator.userAgent". (#20499)
• Fixed crash when adding large values into swap input field via Brave Wallet. (#20881)

Before someone creates drama again because he reads - leaks xyz. The flag is there for 2,5 months. Ii only took 2 weeks to fix because it caused some issues when they tried t workaround it.

After today's build you do not need to touch the flag anymore.

1.35.100

• Added bitFlyer two-way Brave Rewards wallet for Japan region. (#18439)
• Added "Brave" into the web search context menu when opening links in other browsers. (#19842)
• Added notification for Uphold verified users when Customer Due Diligence survey needs to be completed. (#20497)
• Added "wallet_requestPermissions" and "wallet_getPermissions" for compatibility with https://market.x.immutable.com and others. (#19274)
• Added support for "wallet_watchAsset" method to add suggested tokens. (#17878)
• Added EIP-55 checksum address checks in the send widget. (#19532)
• Updated rewards panel design. (#18471)
• Reduced BAT threshold before being able to verify Uphold two-way user wallet from 15 to 2 BAT. (#19912)
• Removed known user tracking parameters "igshid" from certain URLs. (#11580)
• Removed "navigator.connection". (#20122)
• Fixed last connected account being selected when multiple accounts are provided for OpenSea. (#19750)
• Fixed typed data signing issues with https://looksrare.org. (#20541)
• Fixed backup wallet message being displayed when restoring wallet account from seed phrase. (#19966)
• Fixed "My First Ad" notification not opening the correct website after rewards has been enabled. (#19856)
• Fixed "Brave Wallet" icon under "Settings" being a lot larger than other icons. (#20034)
• Upgraded Chromium to 98.0.4758.87. (#20814) (Changelog for 98.0.4758.87)

1.35.100

• Added "wallet_requestPermissions" and "wallet_getPermissions" for compatibility with https://market.x.immutable.com and others. (#19274)
• Added web3 "currentProvider" shim for compatibility with both https://snowtrace.io and https://staking.trava.finance/staking. (#20353)
• Added "personal_ecRecover" signing for compatibility with https://loopring.io. (#19621)
• Added "Add suggested tokens" panel into Brave Wallet. (#19819)
• Added "Ethereum Site Permissions" UI into Brave Wallet. (#19954)
• Added ability to modify current network under Brave Wallet. (#19917)
• Added UI feedback when copying phrase from "Your recovery phrase" screen under Brave Wallet. (#19021)
• Added the ability to set a wallet network as active under brave://settings/wallet/networks. (#19930)
• Added tooltip showing exact date and time to transaction history under Brave Wallet. (#19789)
• Added plus icon to "Select Network" dropdown which navigates to brave://settings/wallet/networks in a new tab. (#19763)
• Added EIP-55 checksum address checks in the send widget. (#19532)
• Added display of active transactions and token balances in the panel. (#19533)
• Added support for "wallet_watchAsset" method to add suggested tokens. (#17878)
• Added notification for Uphold verified users when Customer Due Diligence survey needs to be completed. (#20427)
• Added first-party ephemeral storage with domain block functionality. (#19099)
• [Security] Added .torrc file into Brave. (#17851)
• [Security] Fixed "Allow scripts once" under shields not working in certain cases. #20744) & #20503)
• Enabled EIP-1559 Type-2 transactions for Trezor keyring. (#20116)
• Improved auto focusing on several input elements throughout Brave Wallet. (#19326)
• Improved keyboard accessibility for Brave Wallet. (#20164)
• Improved hardware wallet account naming. (#19507)
• Implemented common password validation. (#19875)
• Updated UI for "Verify recovery phrase" screen to better display 24 word recovery phrases. (#20125)
• Updated wallet import flow. (#18534)
• Updated rewards payout status messaging. (#18602)
• Disabled viewing "Site Permissions" for Brave Wallet panel in certain cases. (#20094)
• Disabled Happiness Tracking Survey (HaTS). (#19685)
• Removed "navigator.connection". (#20122)
• Removed known user tracking parameters "igshid" from certain URLs. (#11580)
• Removed the "Network", "Address" and "Account Orb" from the "Add/Switch Network" panel under Brave Wallet. (#19692)
• Removed price fetching for assets with a zero balance. (#20280)
• Removed permission lifetime options from U2F permission dialog. (#19848)
• Reduced BAT threshold before being able to verify Uphold two-way user wallet from 15 to 2 BAT. (#19911)
• Reduced disclaimer row padding. (#19449)
• Fixed token details not being auto-populated when adding custom asset under Brave Wallet. (#18704)
• Fixed unable to sign messages on https://www.cryptokitties.co using Trezor. (#19504)
• Fixed token name missing from "Allow Spend" panel under Brave Wallet. (#19556)
• Fixed typed data signing issues with https://looksrare.org. (#20541)
• Fixed input value not being reset when network is changed. (#19354)
• Fixed broken icons for custom network base currency. (#19953)
• Fixed redundant ordinal numbers in wallet recovery phrase. (#19813)
• Fixed last connected account being selected when multiple accounts are provided for OpenSea. (#19750)
• Upgraded Chromium to 98.0.4758.87. (#20814) (Changelog for 98.0.4758.87)

New ETH permission, default set to ask I only disabled it because I like less invasive popups and requests and like to opt-in into it manually.

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• https://bravebat.info

Congrats 🙏🥰.

First of all my approval does only reflect my personal opinion regarding the subject privacy and search engine.

It is not meant to bash or discredit Braves work here. I point my concerns out, not more not less. END.

• Brave Search Premium is 3$ a month, Brave intends to implement Brave Rewards into Brave Search sometime in mid 2022. If you pay premium you "Get a cleaner view on all results pages", which means those that don't won't get cleaner page results. Brave Search is currently not displaying any ads in their Beta period, but the free version of Brave Search will soon be ad-supported. Brave Search will also offer an ad-free premium version in the near future, it is unclear if you can, similar like with Talk, use your Rewards to unlock the premium version or not.
• Brave Search Uses Click Data in Search Ranking Algorithm which is controversial. However, I found no evidence for nor against it. My first research on this subject was that the censorship, mentioned below is maybe caused or invoked by this.
• ~~Brave Search censorship - original source - is even worse than Google Search censorship.~~Brendan Eich says that thy do not censor.
• Brave Search requires you to solve a Captcha behind a VPN or Tor, the thing here is that they trying to protect attacks like DOS so this is not easy to solve, StartPage has similar issue.
• Amazon is used as their CA. Brave uses Amazon Cloudfront as their CDN, meaning all traffic passes through Amazon servers. CDNs itself are more than controversial. CDN usage violating GDPR according to Munich State Court, but this does not entirely conduct that CDNs in general are not illegal.
• Brave access your IP address upon your visit to determine your location and better serve you ads. While they claim to not store IP addresses, unlike DDG and Startpage, they do read your full IP address which is not private.
• Brave Search is still beta, which means that since October 2021, Brave Search was declared the default search engine for the Brave browser users in the US, Canada, UK (replacing Google Search), France (replacing Qwant) and Germany (replacing DuckDuckGo and Ecosia).

Most problems are fixable but maybe not all, some depend on the business model and protection mechanism. For example my idea was to e.g. unlock Search Premium with your BATs, this way you can support Brave, use your BATs for good and you do not need to use other payment system if you already use the crypto stuff. Other things can be changed or alternatives could be used, instead of Amazon just self-host your own, which is an option if Brave gets bigger, so you do not depend on infrastructure of others + zero-trust reasons.

I contacted Brave regarding this matter via Twitter but got no answer - so far.

Please do not abuse my findings, this thread and my info to smear Brave or post it without my consent and permission in other forums, that would create unnecessary hate, Brave Search is still beta, as I mentioned above.

Give the Brave Team enough time to respond on a professional manner.