@short_straw @BrendanEich Instead, you have to go into `brave://downloads` and use the "..." button there:
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François Marier
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François Marier
@fmarier
Security/Privacy engineer. FOSS developer.
Vancouver, British Columbia Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@short_straw @BrendanEich For some Safe Browsing verdicts, you can't bypass directly from the download drop down:
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@BrendanEich I'm trying to download something on Brave, and it's flagged, and instead of a warning, it just won't download...
Really?
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@BrendanEich @aes43097484 @brave @_brianclifton The only BSD "port" I know of is this one we link to here: #freebsd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">brave.com/linux/#freebsd
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@aes43097484 @brave I don't think so. Cc'ing @_brianclifton @fmarier in case they know of any ports.
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@Brave grew to over 107.4M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in December 2025.
Brave Browser MAU grew 2.5%, while DAU was flat due to holidays.
Monthly new users grew 8.6%! See 5/5.
Brave Search QPD growth was 2.3%, with over 9% coming from non-Brave browsers, driven by Android.
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BrendanEich@BrendanEich
@Brave grew to over 104.8M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in November 2025. Brave Browser MAU growth rebounded from last month as expected, while DAU saw average growth. Brave Search QPD growth was above average, with over 9% coming from non-Brave browsers, driven by Android. 1/4
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@yoerichofficial @BrendanEich @brave It's now listed on our installation page with the caveat that it's based on an outdated version of Ubuntu: #unofficial-packages" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">brave.com/linux/#unoffic…
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@BrendanEich @brave @fmarier try to accessing git link from your reply but 404 not found sir.. but brave browser that i found on pkg search is safe?
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sorry for asking this sir @BrendanEich
i just trying to use FreeBSD and try to searching package that related with @brave browser
i found that linux/brave-browser its linux layer inside the freebsd
is it safe? or maybe @brave will officially crerate package to FreeBSD?
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@zaneschepke @BrendanEich @hjanuschka @brave @_brianclifton @dhh We do fall back to the basic storage backend if gnome-keyring and kwallet can't be found, but it means that cookies & passwords are stored in plaintext on disk, which isn't ideal of course.
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@BrendanEich @hjanuschka @brave @fmarier @_brianclifton @dhh That would be nice. Ideally, for the least friction for new users, it would be nice if Brave automatically falls back to this basic storage strategy without manual flags (perhaps subtly telling user they should setup keyring for best security).
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@Brave hit 97.8M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in August 2025.
Brave Search at 1.56B Queries Per Month (QPM) annualizes to 18.36B QPY.
All-browsers summer slump is over. On to 100M MAU!
Of particular note: from June to August 2025, we have seen a 26.4% increase in Linux MAU.
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BrendanEich@BrendanEich
@Brave grew to 93.79M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in July 2025. Brave Search at 1.51B QPM annualizes to 17.8B QPY. Despite the browser summer slump, one of our strongest Julys on record. Monthly new browser users up 6.5% vs. June. Both browser and search hit all-time-highs. 1/4
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@BrendanEich @igelblork @rebron There is a strong password generator in Brave gated behind a few prefs (#issuecomment-864286270" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/brave/brave-br…), but it sounds like you're asking for it to be in the password manager (github.com/brave/brave-br…)?
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@BrendanEich switching to Brave and my main sticking point is there's no password generating feature in the password manager. I use this feature a lot to generate and save passwords for unimportant services i sign up to. the other browsers all have this feature, it would be nice.
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@BrendanEich @allenwalton @billychasen @tauseefferaz @brave @BraveSupport @arthuredelstein Not actually related to private windows it turns out. I've updated my repro steps.
I also discovered a work-around: #issuecomment-2964977114" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/brave/brave-br…
Does that work for others too?
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@fmarier @allenwalton @billychasen @tauseefferaz @brave @BraveSupport @arthuredelstein Right, it definitely seems like some (possibly accidental) fingerprinting-like detection of our private window as a suspicious user.
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why on earth has this @brave browser started acting so weird.
every time i try to open an incognito window, this annoying pop-up gets on my nerves.
@BrendanEich, please send help.
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@BrendanEich @allenwalton @billychasen @tauseefferaz @brave @BraveSupport @arthuredelstein I can reproduce reliably: github.com/brave/brave-br…
So I don't think it has to do with the IP address.
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@allenwalton @billychasen @tauseefferaz @brave @BraveSupport @arthuredelstein Okay, you default to Google search i take it. Ccing @fmarier for help.
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@BrendanEich @StacheAutonomy @BraveSupport @BraveSampson Also have a look at github.com/brave/brave-br…, some users have reported that installing the xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk fixes the problem.
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@StacheAutonomy No, first I’ve heard of this bug.
What OS and Brave version?
Ccing @BraveSupport @bravesampson for direct help, which might be better done via direct messages if you can receive them.
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At the Google antitrust remedy trial yesterday, the "Firefox CFO" misspoke, using MAU when asked Firefox DAU in U.S.
2nd image from data.firefox.com/dashboard/user… (select United States from dropdown on right).
Mix of confusion & honest mistake, nbd.
Brave may pass Firefox this year.
BrendanEich@BrendanEich
@johnbind2 @DeplorableSEO Yes, Google tolerates scrapers (smirked "we'll look into that" when we reported egregious cases), it's part of their high-vs-low against the middle. Serp{API,er} as _Lumpenproletariat_ to wield against Bing & Brave. (No JS whinage, I worked on it for 20 years to get to ES202x.)
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@shivan_kaul @gnukeith @privatpartiet @KarlEmilNikka @brave @PryvitKyle The highlighted string is wrong (we need to fix this). It comes from Chromium which also has client-side phishing detection. That's what's described in the highlighted sentence. We disable that part of Safe Browsing in Brave.
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Hi @brave. Is this a mistake or does the Brave browser sometimes send URLs and bits of the page content to Google Safe Browsing when Standard protection is enabled (default)?
support.brave.com/hc/en-us/artic…
#Brave #GoogleSafeBrowsing
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@BrendanEich @ja_wolski @burnedmind @DaddyWarpig @arthuredelstein I don't know what's going on with yandex, but on my first try, I got ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED too. Tried in Chrome and I ended up on a CAPTCHA. Firefox worked the first time. And now if I reload the page in Brave, it works fine (no CAPTCHA).
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@ja_wolski @burnedmind @DaddyWarpig I access yandex all the time in Brave. What error page or dialog do you get? Screenshot best, DMs open. Could you be suffering from an ISP or nation state firewall that abuse the DNS, and perhaps Firefox uses a different DoH provider? Cc: @arthuredelstein @fmarier for followup.
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Given the bannings of common extensions (below) and the limitations on, e.g. video downloaders for Instagram, maybe it's time for Brave to start their own website for extensions for Brave, @BrendanEich.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
it’s happening
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@AbbasAlly5 @BrendanEich @brave I assume it's the Search CAPTCHA? I've not seen that problem before. Are you able to share a screenshot of the CAPTCHA (there are multiple versions of it, all different) by any chance?
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@BrendanEich @brave ironically, Brave's content security policy enforcement prevented me from doing the captcha on Brave. i had to use chrome XD
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Brave Search is up +8.4% m-o-m, over 1B QPM, with a Chromium "back/forward cache" bugfix boost.
Brave the browser High-Water-Mark DAU is over 30M users now.
We're focused on growth + retention. On search, we will rescue users whom we defaulted to Google, pre-Brave-Search.
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BrendanEich@BrendanEich
Brave Search is up +3% month over month. Brave the browser high-watermark DAU is almost 30M users, up +5% from July. The "summer slump", familiar to browser vendors, due to holidays + school breaks, ended in the last week of August. We saw search and browser growth surge. 1/4
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@mahesh_subham @BrendanEich @_brianclifton @brave @BraveSupport @shivan_kaul We do support that. For example, you can add raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/Fi… as a custom filter on brave://settings/shields/filters
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@BrendanEich @mahesh_subham @_brianclifton @brave @BraveSupport @shivan_kaul See github.com/brave/brave-br… and github.com/brave/brave-br… for how we decide where to remove specific parameters.
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@mahesh_subham @_brianclifton @brave @BraveSupport @fmarier Brave already (and for years) removes trackers while browsing too.
Please see brave.com/privacy-update… (part of the brave.com/privacy-update… ongoing series) and the “Tracking query parameters” section of privacytests.org.
Ccing @shivan_kaul in case of more questions.
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@BrendanEich @mahesh_subham @brave @BraveSupport What we're looking into is to allow Sync users to optionally linking their Sync data to an email address + password, preserving E2E encryption:
- remember your password => you can recover, even if you've lost all your devices
- lose your password and devices => out of luck
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@BrendanEich @mahesh_subham @brave @BraveSupport Recovery is tricky when you're dealing with end-to-end encryption. We don't want to ever be in a position to be able to read your Sync data.
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@sashimiSub220 @BrendanEich @brave I'm not personally familiar with that, but I'll ask others at Brave. Have you looked at fcitx-im.org/wiki/Using_Fci…?
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@BrendanEich @brave Is there anyway to enable the Wayland IME support for brave? Or is this a Wayland issue 😔
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April growth stats for @Brave.
Browser: 64.07 million Monthly Active Users (MAU +4.7%)
Search: 818.67 million monthly search queries (-1.26%) — browser-measured ↓, search engine count ↑ 2.4% (more below on this).
Browser: 27.15M Daily Active Users (DAU +5.3%), strong growth!
BrendanEich@BrendanEich
March growth stats for @Brave. Browser: 61.20 million Monthly Active Users (MAU +1.2%) Search: 829.09 million monthly search queries (-0.4%) 25.79M Daily Active Users (DAU +0.9%) — March's All Time High, but April beat already! 1/4
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@BrendanEich @PulseChainLIVE @brave @shivan_kaul @PryvitKyle Interesting idea. Might be an good addition to SpeedReader.
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February in this leap year was good growth month for @Brave.
Browser: 60.46 million Monthly Active Users (MAU +2.1%)
Search: 832.43 million monthly search queries (+2.7%)
25.55M Daily Active Users (DAU +2.1%) — another new All-Time High.
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BrendanEich@BrendanEich
January was another big growth month for @Brave. Browser: 59.21 million Monthly Active Users (MAU +3.8%) Search: 810.7 million monthly search queries (+7.3%) We also crossed 25 million Daily Active Users (DAU +4%, 28 day average lookback), a new All-Time High! 1/4
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@bcomnes @BrendanEich @gateklons We have two such cleaners (one for trackers, one for other junk). The former is implemented in github.com/brave/brave-co… and the latter uses this custom list: github.com/brave/adblock-…
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@BrendanEich @gateklons @fmarier Is your link cleaner open source? Would love to see that in more apps
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This isn't just about link decoration to track users for ad-tech -- as with X's &t= ad YouTube's &si= (removed by Brave Copy Link / Copy Clean Link), IG's equivalent URL decoration IDs anon IG users to Meta. Thanks to @gateklons (see h/t from @fmarier at #issuecomment-1874741800" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/brave/brave-br…).
Jason Kint@jason_kint
Woah. This is a huge deal, demands tech press attention. If Facebook moves forward, the FTC should be ready with (another) inquiry. This report says Facebook is going to start tracking web activity for users who have turned off “Off-Facebook Activity.” First, some background. /1
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@2disbetter @BrendanEich @brave @_brianclifton We have an issue tracking these kinds of problems: github.com/brave/brave-br…
Feel free to add any other things you've noticed.
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First thank you for your efforts and for responding. What I mean is that when the app needs to fit on a smaller screen with a ratio that favors the vertical, that tabs and ui controls are some how still usable. Firefox ESR has some good pointers. Right now I have to use tab groups to have a chance. You see that the URL is occluded as well. Perhaps allowing the navigation buttons to collapse together and to pop open on tap vertically might be one method shrinking the UI. Once again, I am grateful that it is available on Arm64 and when docked and using a larger screen it runs beautifully. Really great job all around as usual.
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@brave @BrendanEich Seeing how lost Mozilla is these days, and how important Brave is. Also in light of the great work of getting Brave on Linux mobile phones like the PinePhone and Librem 5, could I beg for Brave desktop to handle convergence better on a smartphone screen.
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