50 Reasons to Switch to Brave Browser

Tracking often begins before a person has even read the page they opened. These 50 reasons explain concrete ways Brave can reduce that exposure, from blocking trackers to limiting fingerprinting and making browser behavior easier to inspect. Each reason links to its own guide.

50 reasons to switch to Brave Browser

1. Block third-party trackers before they record your browsing
2. Stop advertising networks from following you across unrelated sites
3. Restrict cross-site cookies used to assemble behavioral profiles
4. Partition browser storage that trackers use to recognize repeat visitors
5. Disrupt fingerprinting that identifies you without cookies
6. Expose trackers disguised as part of the site you are visiting
7. Skip known tracking domains hidden inside links
8. Strip known tracking parameters from web addresses
9. Reveal less about the page you came from through referrer headers
10. Bypass Google's AMP pages when Brave can reach the original site
11. Block social media embeds that can observe visitors outside their platforms
12. Reduce exposure to invasive ads and the scripts that deliver them
13. Limit the data ad networks collect about sensitive searches
14. Make medical research harder for third-party trackers to follow
15. Keep financial research from feeding the same cross-site ad profile
16. Reduce tracking of job searches that you may need to keep private
17. Limit profiling of political, legal, or labor research
18. Make shopping behavior less available for corporate retargeting
19. Stop a tracking link from becoming a permanent trail between sites
20. Clear a site's cookies when you leave with Forgetful Browsing
21. Prevent sites you rarely visit from recognizing you indefinitely
22. Give camera and microphone access for a limited time
23. Inspect what Shields blocks on each site
24. Tighten protections for sites that handle sensitive activity
25. Get tracker blocking by default before installing extensions
26. Reduce the information your browser sends to its vendor
27. Keep synced browsing data encrypted on your devices
28. Avoid sending your sync data through a Google account
29. Avoid Chromium advertising features Brave has removed
30. Use Brave Search when you want searches without a search profile
31. Upgrade eligible connections to HTTPS to reduce interception
32. Get warnings about known phishing sites
33. Get warnings about known malware-hosting sites
34. Flag dangerous downloads before they reach your desktop
35. Check extensions against known security threats
36. Use Safe Browsing without sending full URLs to Google
37. Reduce the chance that third-party ad code runs on a page
38. Limit what embedded content learns about your visits
39. Make tracking through browser language and fonts harder
40. Resist newer fingerprinting methods that use graphics hardware
41. Separate a temporary visit from cookies saved by a tracking intermediary
42. Reduce unwanted tracking on both desktop and mobile
43. Block many cookie consent notices that pressure you to accept tracking
44. Reduce the browsing signals available to data brokers
45. Limit what a social platform learns when its widgets appear elsewhere
46. Keep more browsing activity out of a single corporate account
47. Choose site-specific exceptions without abandoning broader protections
48. Signal your preference against data sales with Global Privacy Control
49. Use an open-source browser whose privacy mechanisms can be inspected
50. Start reducing surveillance at the point where web data is collected

Start with the protections that address your daily browsing. Brave cannot make an ordinary browsing session anonymous to a site you sign in to, so keep examining the accounts and services you use.