I cocked it up somehow), it's sub-optimal, and not great legally - indicating that there are 'ads or other creepy things' when there are not is inaccurate, potentially loss-causing (e.g. I haven't dug too deeply into this, and I guess that something odd is going on behind the scenes. Again, the UI very clearly shows that this is for the domain decoded.legal.īut when I reload the page in Brave, none. Nothing.īut, when I search 'decoded legal' on DuckDuckGo, and click through (to decoded.legal) sure enough, Brave shows that there are for 'ads or other creepy things'. There are no ad-related scripts, not trackers, not but-it's-on-a-pixel things, no cookies at all. Now, I know that there is nothing untoward on that site, because it's mine. I did the same test again, but this time using the domain decoded.legal. Brave detects 'ads and other creepy things' on decoded.legal? When I reload the page in Brave, and view the blocking system again, it shows that there are no ads or other creepy things. The UI of Brave's tool shows very clearly that this relates to the domain.īut why would Brave, which offers a browser with functionality to block 'ads and other creepy things', use on its website the very things which its own browser blocks? When I clicked on the first result - which, as you can see, is a page on the domain - Brave's internal ad/tracker blocking system showed two 'Ads and other creepy things blocked'. Which makes it even more strange! Brave detects 'ads and other creepy things' on ? Update: a handful of other Brave users have confirmed that they are a not able to replicate this.

I couldn't find a way to install extensions, so I searched online, using DuckDuckGo (and, yes, in the light of the recent Microsoft debacle, I'm having second thoughts about that.

I wanted to see how to install extensions / add-ons, so that my experience with Brave on mobile can mirror my experience of Brave on my desktop. I am experimenting with Brave on Android.

Brave or duckduckgo