In this article, where we examine the Tor and Brave browsers on privacy and security issues, we will focus on the details of which browser provides what kind of advantages. For details, see the rest of the article.
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The fact that we share our lives, which we lead by sitting in our homes, with our curtains drawn and disconnected from the outside world, with third parties on social media in a completely “curtainless” manner, necessitates us to take some precautions. At the beginning of these measures, it provides our connection with the internet. browsers is coming. So how much can we trust which browser? What are the options that give us privacy? Two options appear in response to these questions: Brave and Tor Browser. Let’s examine the security features of both browsers together.
Brave Browser
Brave Browser was launched in November 2019 and has hosted many corporate and individual customers since then. As the highlight of the Brave browser, blocking ads, preventing data sharing with third parties We can show Brave Shields. shields feature provides many security measures by default, but users can easily configure general privacy and security settings in the browser as well as enable blocking of malicious ads and other junk very easily. Brave’s ad blocker shield shares this data with its user and calculates how many ads/cookies have been blocked so far. bandwidth savings makes it easier to keep track of data. The browser has Linux, Windows and Mac support.
Also, the Brave browser does not see Tor as a competitor, but rather with it. in an integrated way is working. Brave infrastructure, which runs in parallel with the Tor browser, HTTPS and AMP It provides an automatic update option. Also, according to the data, in addition to the security and privacy features it provides, the Brave browser, Chrome and Microsoft Edge It offers a much faster infrastructure than its popular competitors such as
Brave browser it’s completely free and users about advertisements 2 options offers. Users who want to have an ‘internet surfing’ option that is completely free from advertisements and cookies, BAT (Basic Attention Token) has special advertising options to earn. In case of choosing this option, BAT payment is made to the cryptocurrency wallets of users who view the ads carefully selected by Brave, which is in line with the number of ad views on a monthly basis.
Tor Browser
As every internet user who has done research on cyber security knows, the Tor browser is among the pioneers of this subject. The Onion RouterTor, short for , is an anonymizing internet communication by routing all internet traffic through a series of layered nodes. open source is a software program. The browser has Android, Linux, Windows and Mac support.
It is very difficult to track the data of someone accessing the Internet through Tor, which has made the Tor browser popular with journalists, whistleblowers, activists, law enforcement and those who depend on online anonymity. To give an example of Tor’s past uses: Bitcoin was used for the first time. Silk Road Access to the Deep Web market was provided with Tor in 2012, WikiLeaks’After the bans were imposed on the servers of the United States, access to the WikiLeaks official website was provided with the Tor browser, etc. Likewise, in any country in the world, chance to circumvent provided with Tor so far. At the beginning of these countries are countries such as China, Iran, Turkey and Russia, which attract attention with their bans on the internet. In parallel with the bans, these are the countries where the Tor browser is used the most.
Tor, which allows users to browse the internet anonymously, can be used completely free of charge. It has managed to carry out its operational activities so far thanks to voluntary donations. The setup and interface of this browser, which offers a complex encryption and security infrastructure it’s pretty simple. Tor browser adheres to privacy infrastructure for web searches DuckDuckGouses .
So Which Browser Should We Use?
From a basic approach, Tor provides much more security and privacy than Brave, but the Brave browser is easier to use and offers a much faster infrastructure service than Tor. Unlike Tor and Brave, which constantly change your IP location and provide complete privacy, you are unlikely to download large files and perform fast transactions. As the author’s personal recommendation, users, in their daily life You can use the Brave browser and maximum privacy and security In cases where it is necessary, they can prefer the Tor browser.