Add Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection Feature to Brave

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Please add the Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection to Brave, thank you.

Sincerly,

Brave Browser User

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@sanzm0182
Enhanced protection might surely increase security, but it comes at the cost of privacy. In the description of enhanced protection you can see that ALL sites you visit WILL BE SENT to google.
My recommendations to you instead:

  1. Use Quad9 (www.quad9.net) or DNS0 (if you’re in the EU) (www.dns0.eu) + Standard Protection. (Mostly more than enough).
  2. Scan each site using (https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url), (https://phish.report/analysis) and (https://www.f-secure.com/en/link-checker) (Use this ONLY if you require EXTREME levels of security; not so practical though)
  3. Use (https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists?tab=readme-ov-file#tif) (May contain false positives)
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Help Google train their AI. No thanks.
If you want real genuinely protection use the Tor feature.

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Note: This is the cybersecurity feature by Google for Brave browser since the standard protection was introduced in this browser.

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What do you mean exactly? Pls clarify.

There’s a huge difference between Standard and Enhanced protections, with respect to privacy and security. Enhanced protection is meant only for those who visit a lot of random websites frequently, thus needing high levels of security. But can it trusted all the time? No. There will undoubtedly be some false positives, and some malicious websites will pass through. It’s unavoidable. And speaking of privacy, it’s more like a disaster. Standard protection, on the other hand, downloads a list of known malicious websites on to your device, protecting you locally. It doesn’t harm your privacy, and is thus recommended for most people.

If you really need real-time protection while browsing, I would recommend NextDNS (nextdns.io). You’ll have to enable their AI-driven Threat Detection (Note: It’s in Beta as of now) in their Security tab. But it too will have false positives and some malware will pass through.

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There will always be a tradeoff between security vs. Privacy. A user either has to balance them both or favour one over another.

Understand that Brave is a privacy focused browser

Although it is designed to be fairly secure by default, a user can achieve even higher levels of security by the use of secure dns as suggested by @Clock above. It can be argued that Brave could ship with harderned settings by default, but this may not be ideal for some users who like usability.

You can also limit exploit vectors by disabling features that you don’t require in your browser (Like WebGL, WebRTC, Device sensors like Camera, Microphone, Don’t store password in browsers, Disable JavaScript Optimization Engine “V8”, Implementing strict fingerprinting resistance.)

Also, Don’t go on shady websites or click on random links or media files. This should suffice.

Enabling something like enhanced protection from Google Chrome will pretty much send all your browsing data (Links, Downloads, Browsing Habbits, extentions) to third-party a.k.a. it will absolutely positively abolish your browsing privacy - something which is complete opposite of why Brave Browser was created in the first place.