We can change some of these features on Brave, which disables the whole Wallet, NFTs and Crypto stuff. We can also disable the VPN, as theirs is not recommended anyways.
While I want to do this because I don’t want to have a long list of items on my hamburger menu there and make my browser less complicated, I believe that this will also reduce the attack surface (and make the browser as a whole faster and consumes less resources).
You can go to: brave://flags/#native-brave-wallet
And Here’s a screenshot of all the things I would disable:
Their method still doesn’t deactivate the wallet and other stuff entirely (AFAIK), but this method should.
Explicetly for the wallet, I got it from Brave’s website themselves
@Voilable make yourself useful and link the guides you think are good, so that the PG Team can review them and decide if they want to add anything to the current guide.
Yes, but only on the filesystem level (on desktop). Find the place where Brave stores your profiles, create a new one to see what changes. You can just copy&rename a profile directory and it will have all the settings from the original.
privacy is currently not for lazy people, and it is NOT their fault.
The problem is that we lack proper consumer protection laws. And that is the biggest problem facing mainstream privacy landscape.
Just like how you shouldn’t need to understand chemistry to not get lead in your drinking water, ideally we should get at least decent privacy even without knowing about technology.
But again, it’s sadly not yet the case. Hence, privacy is not for lazy people (right now)
thanks alot for the report! I’m almost sure that this wasn’t the case when I posted this thread, but it’s definitely true rn also on my side.
I’ll keep that VPN flag out of the things I recommended above.
Edit: it seems I can’t edit my original post, so I’ll have to let it there.
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In Discourse, you can visit a user’s profile and toggle the second setting on the right-hand side to different values and for a specific period of time.
