Brave questions

Privacy Questions
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Hi

I am trying to switch from Firefox to Brave on my Windows machine and I have couple of questions.

  • Is it possible to remove Wallet, VPN and Password Manager options from menu?

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  • Is it possible to disable reminders for Brave products like Brave Talk popups?

  • Is it possible to remove Brave Rewards and Brave VPN completely? Not just hiding from address bar, but completely remove that feature.

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Is it possible to customize right click menu like I can do in Firefox?

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How privacy friendly is Brave compared to Firefox (default installations, no Arkenfox)

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People seem to always link https://privacytests.org/, to answer this question. The consensus on this forum seems to be that Brave is better “out of the box” and I suggest you use it.

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No, you can’t remove any of these menu items. Disable/don’t enable and they will never bother you again.

Same with any reminders, they only show up once IIRC. Just click them away and they’re gone.

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Yeah, they shouldn’t appear after you dismiss them the first time

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You can go to Brave://flags and disable the flags that are called

  • Enable Brave Wallet

  • Enable experimental Brave VPN

  • For password manager there’s no explicit place to turn it off, but you can look up password and turn off the password manager features you don’t want

This will completely disable the features, but not all references to them

You can disable everything for Rewards in the rewards panel in settings

Brave VPN should be completely disabled from the flag being disabled

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Thanks that worked.

Do you also know how I can setup Brave as standard browser? I can’t select Brave as default app for HTTP and HTTPS. Only Firefox and Edge are showing up

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Try going to “get started” in Brave’s settings and enabling it as the default there

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Settings > Start > Set as default browser opens Windows’s Default Apps, and Brave is not showing up there.

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Try going to the settings in the Brave browser, and in the settings, there’s a section called get started and you can set it from there

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I reinstalled Brave and now it is working properly :slight_smile:

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The way I’ve solved this for myself is by disabling those features using the Windows Registry. I derived the keys below from brave://policy and Google’s policy documentation:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\BraveSoftware\Brave]
"BraveWalletDisabled"=dword:00000001
"BraveVPNDisabled"=dword:00000001
"BraveRewardsDisabled"=dword:00000001
"PasswordManagerEnabled"=dword:00000000
"BraveAIChatEnabled"=dword:00000000
"IPFSEnabled"=dword:00000000
"TorDisabled"=dword:00000001

Modifying the registry directly is probably not the best way to do this, but I haven’t encountered any issues during my time with these settings activated. Moreover, the Brave stuff completely disappears from menus this way, so I prefer this over toggling the same keys in brave://flags.

Hope this is of any help to you!

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Thank you very much ! Finally my Brave is clean.

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Glad it fixed your issue!