Tracking

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Switch to Brave Browser Reason #41: Separate a temporary visit from cookies saved by a tracking intermediary

A tracking redirect can plant storage during a brief visit that was never meant to be a real stop.

A video, widget, or embedded login can reveal your visit to a company you never opened directly.

Tracking is easy to dismiss when it happens invisibly.

Occasional news, shopping, and image sites rarely need a permanent browser identity for you.

Redirects and URL markers can connect a newsletter click to later browsing, even when the pages themselves seem unrelated.

A destination may learn which page sent you there, exposing a sensitive topic before you say a word.

A link can carry campaign and identity markers in its URL.

A click can be routed through a tracking intermediary before reaching the destination.

Some tracking vendors hide behind a site's own-looking subdomain, hoping ordinary third-party blocking will miss them.

Blocking ordinary cookies is insufficient if embedded services can reuse other browser storage across websites.

A tracker embedded in a page can learn that you visited even though you never chose to deal with that company.