Switch to Brave Browser Reason #15: Keep financial research from feeding the same cross-site ad profile

Why this matters

Research about debt, insurance, or a major purchase can be commercially valuable to targeting systems. Privacy is easier to defend before this information is collected than after it has spread.

The protection

Shields blocks many embedded trackers that would otherwise connect finance-related pages with unrelated browsing.

Take action

Move financial research into a protected browser and check the Shields counter. Banks and sites where you sign in still know your activity there. Brave reduces common tracking, but a site you sign in to still knows what you do there. Ordinary browsing also reveals your IP address to the destination.

Sources

Brave Shields.