You may already know about the Tor Browser, but are you aware that it can be integrated with Brave Browser as well?
If you’ve never heard of Brave Browser, you can download it here: Brave Browser. It’s based on Chromium and has a number of different privacy oriented features, even without Tor.
For instance, it has an option called “Shields,” which it uses to block elements on web pages that are potentially malicious (or might be used to track you):
As you can see, it blocks ads and can also block scripts, and things like third-party device recognition, which is used to uniquely identify your computer, smartphone, etc.
Now, as for accessing Tor with it, this is quite simple. In the upper right-hand corner (as on Chrome or Chromium), there is an options menu. On this menu is a feature called “New Private Window with Tor.” It may appear similar to the “incognito” function on Chrome, but you’re also using a Tor connection.
Keep in mind that at the present time, this feature is in “beta,” so it may not work as well as simply using the Tor Browser itself. In case you’re wondering, yes, you can access .onion sites with Brave Browser in this mode as well. Additionally, if you do a search in this mode, the default search engine will be DuckDuckGo (just as on the Tor Browser). As mentioned in DuckDuckGo is not a Dark Web Search Engine (Revisited), of course, it does not return search results for .onion sites.
To search for onion sites, you’ll need to use a Tor search engine, like not Evil, ahmia.fi, or Onion Search Engine (which is also available on Tor at 5u56fjmxu63xcmbk.onion).
Brave also mentions that they are “contributing back to the Tor network by running Tor relays. We are proud to be adding bandwidth to the Tor network, and intend to add more bandwidth in the coming months.” You can view Brave’s Tor relays at Tor Metrics: Brave. At the present time, Brave is running six relays, with names like “BraveMenkaure” and “BraveCalakmulll.”
Still, it doesn’t seem all that difficult to install the Tor Browser itself, so I’d recommend that over anything else; that’s a matter of personal preference, of course.
if i connect through my home wifi and use brave tor to browse sites will it show on my home wifi router history sites i have seen displayed there
Possibly, it may show the IP addresses of sites you’ve visited. Maybe you can test it out with a neutral site to make sure. Still, you’re better off just using the Tor Browser itself. For a brief time, Tor wasn’t working for me, so I used this as the alternative.
ip address like are just numbers displaying r the other info will also be shown ;like website names…
Just the numbers. But if someone looked up the IP address, they would be able to see what website it corresponded to. They’d have to go to the trouble of doing that, though!
For instance, if you visited youtube, it would say “142.250.74.238”
tysm you helped me pout with my confusions a lot i have a genral question if you dont mind can i ask you that tooo
Sure, what’s your question? If it’s something confidential, probably best not to ask in the comment section as that’s public!
no nothing like that dont worry! for instance im using the home wifi connection on my phone and then i do wifi sharing to my pc or laptop like will it show my pc’s activity in router log….. if yes is there any way io can get is login id and passwords so tyht i could clear it
no nothing like tht dont worry!
for instance im using my home wifi and i connect my phone to it and then i share phone’s wifi to my pc or laptop will its serach be shown in router logs..if yes ca i delete it anyhow without using login and all reset thing i would have used tor but its slow
Yes, Tor will always be a little slow. That’s the tradeoff for anonymity.
k but what about tht phn pc connection things can u kindly ans that too
You mean connecting to Tor? Maybe we can talk over email about this, since you have some complex questions. ciphas@protonmail.com
i mailed you can you reply me kindly as i just have two dAYS TO UNDERSTAND AND SOLVE MY PROBLEM
OK! Didn’t know it was time-sensitive!