I took a hard look at this and for what it does, it does it right. There is a lot of improvement possible in many dimensions having to with such things a s tracking the trackers and which web sites use which trackers, labelled as much as possible to purpose. This would greatly improve people’s understanding of the fine set of filters that Brave borrowed (and are available to other browsers).

The implementation generally meets all of the technical requirements in my book “How to get your privacy back” on Amazon. The basic ideas are not at all new, but seeing their implementation is gratifying. I am only a bit concerned about them having employed Google’s browser as a base since it is one of the best engineered browsers even though we have to continue to watch Google to keep their motto of “do no harm.”

On the character and ethics attacks on the people behind Brave, I have to say read “How to get your lies back: The Internet Court of Lies” to see why, perhaps, such attacks are as as bad as the wholesale attack on privacy that Brave bravely seeks to temper.