onion addresses you visit to your DNS provider,” Kettle tweeted, providing a screenshot for evidence. “I just confirmed that yes, Brave browsers Tor mode appear to leak all the. With Brave, your ISP would know that you accessed somesketchyonionsite.onion.”įollowing the disclosure, well-known security researchers including PortSwigger Web Security’s James Kettle independently verified the issue using the Wireshark packet analysis tool. The blog post reads: “Your ISP or DNS provider will know that a request made to a specific Tor site was made by your IP. onion sites using the Tor feature in Brave can be tracked – a direct contradiction to its purpose in the first place. onion websites, which are hosted on the dark net.Įarlier today (February 19), a blog post from ‘Rambler’ claimed that Brave was leaking DNS requests made in the Brave browser to a user’s ISP.ĭNS requests are unencrypted, meaning that any requests to access. As Brave search is still new and evolving so I hope it improves.UPDATED Brave, the privacy-focused web browser, is exposing users’ activity on Tor’s hidden servers – aka the ‘dark web’ – to their internet service providers, it has been confirmed.īrave is shipped with a built-in feature that integrates the Tor anonymity network into the browser, providing both security and privacy features that can help obscure a user’s activity on the web. Using Startpage is another option but it is owned by an advertising company so there are some concerns there.Īn issue I am having with Brave Search that the dark theme in Search doesnt have good enough contrast between the background and the text. While I admire their 'objective' results but they are somewhat inconvenient in comparison to Google.Įven though my work and daily usage dont require me to have really specific result but still the change from Google to DDG or Brave Search is being a bit hard for me.Įdit: After the discussion I am leaning towards Brave Search as many people suggested to use either bangs or enable 'Google fallback mixing' for anonymous google results within Brave Search.

I tried using Duck Duck Go & the recent Brave search.

I use Google in Brave and I know it defies the point of privacy but the search results Google provides are way above than any other platform.

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