As we pointed out yesterday at the launch of Chrome 104, we are in those days of the month when Chromium derivatives release their new versions, and if the first is king, then the rest will come. So it’s your turn bravea special variant, if any, because it is the only open source, except for Chromium itself.

Brave 1.42 is a new version of the browser, and among its novelties is a basic jump towards Chromium 104, from which it takes over all the background improvements, including received security patches, ultimately the main part of the novelties of both releases. And since Brave is also the closest derivative of the Chromium forms, it also accepts everything else… or almost everything.

So, for example, Brave includes support for region scanning, but it doesn’t do the same with Google Lens search… as is clear from how it uses the browser, its own search engine and service, the highly recommended Brave Search is still in development, but it already works very good.

In addition, Brave includes its own new features that generally focus on two distinctive aspects of the browser: privacy and cryptocurrencies. While for the latter, news appears more often in relation to the services that Brave integrates, privacy news is more important this time.

Since Brave 1.42, the browser enables Unlinkable Bouncing by defaultsomething like ‘unlinkable bounce’, an improved tracking protection that will warn users “when you’re about to visit a privacy-infringing (or otherwise suspicious) website, while allowing caching in data is not mixed in.”

“This prevents the site from identifying you by linking your fingerprint to previous visits, but allows the site to function normally. Each visit essentially appears as a unique visit for the first time, anonymizing your digital footprint.,” the Brave developers explained when they introduced the feature a few months ago. More information in the official announcement.

One of the most interesting features is Unlinkable Bouncing. but there’s more: privacy-related, Brave 1.42 also improves fingerprint tracking in aggressive protection mode; but the modifications are also applied to other aspects of the browser, such as the layout of the new tab page in regular private windows and with Tor; the configuration of search engines used in the address bar has been fine-tuned; improves the autocomplete system suggestions with more data…

… And it is added support for importing data from Microsoft Edgein case you’re interested in switching to a browser that’s just as powerful but more privacy-friendly, like Brave.

From this point of view, it seems that Brave actually has more to offer than meets the eye. If you’re interested, you already know: you’ve got it for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and Windows.