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Credit to bsclifton for the idea!

It's not but given that Perplexity doesn't have an API and blocks automated downloads, I'm not sure what else to use. Explained in the docs: https://github.com/ShivanKaul/chromium-…

Sorry about that! I've fixed the colors and contrast now.

Thanks, fixed now.

I worked with Ralph when he was at Brave. I fondly remember many long walks in downtown Vancouver with him, getting tea at Matchstick and chatting about Rust and privacy and ancien…

Programming languages need to give the developer a way to iterate (map, fold, for-loop, whatever) over a collection of items. Over time we've come up with more elegant ways of doin…

Programming with LLMs is fundamentally different than going from a lower-level to a higher-level language, even apart from the whole non-determinism thing. With a programming langu…

You can add these to your `~/.claude/settings.json`: "env": { "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY": "1", "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC": "1", "DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER": "1…

We used to use Bloom filters in 2019, funnily enough: https://brave.com/blog/improved-ad-blocker-performance/

That is correct.

We use the same adblocking engine (adblock-rust) on all platforms, including iOS, hence the shared memory savings.

> Or does it still replace them with ads for scanmy cryptocurrency? Brave never did that. Brave blocks third-party ads & trackers by default. (disclaimer: I lead privacy and adbloc…

[BOTH FILLED] Brave Software | C++ Engineer, Filterlist Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time Brave is building a privacy-first browser and a more transparent Web for over 100M users. On t…

Self-plug but if anyone is interested in learning more about how browser fingerprinting works and the different protections browser makers deploy against it, I wrote a longer post …

This would be akin to Chrome sending the user's (unmodified) URLs to Google. Even Chrome thinks that that would be really bad for user privacy, and goes through elaborate technique…

This is easy in Brave, just go to brave://settings/shields/filters and enable the "YouTube Anti-Shorts" filter list.

> Even if you know the source of the text before you feed it to the model you still need to solve the problem of how to send untrusted text from a user through a model without that…

You're right that if the user logs into a sensitive website, the "isolated browsing" mitigation stops helping. We don't want the user to accidentally end up in that state though. S…

> I haven't seen a single credible technique from anyone that can distinguish content from instructions You specifically mean that it's ~impossible to distinguish between content a…