Let’s look a bit more closely at that address / toolbar: While it shows city and location names, it actually tracks based on your latitude/longitude on Earth, as you can see in the address box. To demonstrate, I’ll use the National Weather Service web site, one I visit every day and one that you would hope has very few privacy issues as it doesn’t include any advertising and is run by a US Gov’t agency! The base URL is, as shown: But we’ll get to that once we reach that button on the address bar. Brave is no different in this regard, particularly since it has some rather unique features including a rather confusing “rewards” program. Switching to any new browser has a bit of a learning curve, however, even though they all do the same basic function: Show you Web pages. ![]() There are more aggressively private browsers – I’m a fan of The Onion Router ( Tor) browser, for example – but Brave seems to be a good balance between the relatively loose privacy of Chrome, Edge and Safari and the occasional obstacle race of using Tor for daily Web surfing. Brave is a relatively new Web browser on the scene, built with a focus on tracking, ad blocking and other aspects of privacy. ![]() I’m always in favor of people spending more attention to their online privacy, so this is a great question.
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