Brave 1.62 is a new version of today’s most popular privacy-protecting web browser — courtesy of Tor, of course, but with nuances — and while it’s likely you’ll care little about the numbering, because unlike other Chromium derivatives like Microsoft Edge itself, neither Chrome doesn’t follow what is labeled base… Yes, this too is based on the latest Chromium 121.

In any case, Brave is also presented with its own new features, and it has a little bit of everything to its credit: from improvements to the browser’s privacy features to improvements to some of the productivity tools it integrates, such as the news reader . Let’s take a look at everything new, and believe me, if you are a Brave user, you will be interested to know about it.

Starting with the issue of privacy, the browser eliminates this option block fingerprints in strict mode, and as he warns, “may damage the site.” That said, enabling this option in designated mode can help improve browsing privacy, but it’s intrusive enough to cause widespread problems, and it’s been decided to get rid of it.

Does this option still appear under “Settings > Brave Shields > Block Fingerprints”? That’s because elimination is underway, but it will come. In the meantime, remember to use strict mode. By default, the browser offers a standard blocking mode.

Other privacy and security news from Brave refers to the extension HTTPS everywhere, originally developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and integrated into Brave since its inception. Well, the EFF abandoned development last year, while Brave has maintained its support until now. The migration to the new method has started, but as with the previous option, it will take place gradually.

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Just in case, HTTPS Everywhere is responsible for preferring connections with encrypted versions of websites, that is, those that use HTTP instead of HTTP, and has been a common feature in many web browsers for several years. On the other hand, the push by the Internet giants to encrypt network traffic has caused the adoption of the protocol to become widespread, so that today it is not a big deal, although as they say, it is not a big deal either.

Finally, regarding this section and qualifying what was said at the beginning, Brave has also improved Tor implementationbrowsing option it offers along with incognito mode.

Moving on to the practical news, Brave has made it better Leo artificial intelligence assistant, a kind of more limited ChatGPT, but more respectful of user privacy. This also applies to Bing Chat / Copilot, Aria, etc. The improvement comes from the integration of Mixtral, an open source language model engine that exponentially expands the capabilities of the assistant. For more information go here.

In conclusion, Brave gave his integrated message reader, a bit in the style of Google Discover or the Microsoft Edge alternative, with the addition, sorry for the redundancy, with the ability to add your own sources via RSS. They also dedicated an article on the Brave blog to this visual and practical renovation, detailing all the changes.

By the way… are you a Brave user and using the news feature? Let us know you’ll find us there. Search for “muycomputer” (without the quotes) in the personalization section, add us and that’s it, now you can receive everything we publish.