You won’t have to retype your username and password, but this setting does require that extra click. If you turn it on, you’ll find that Hypothesis needs you to click its login link each time you load the extension in a tab. In Chrome, by default, the setting called Block third-party cookies is off. If you make the switch, here are two issues you’ll want to know about. So if you are running Brave, you can simply visit this link to install Hypothesis in Brave. A new version of Brave not ony runs Chrome extensions, it installs them directly from the Chrome web store. Then, in September 2018, came the unblocker. It couldn’t run Chrome extensions, including the one that’s central to my job: the Hypothesis extension. In practice there was a blocker for my switch to Brave.

Who wouldn’t appreciate a fully Chrome-compatible browser that loads web pages faster and doesn’t spy on you? In theory, the integration of such defenses into a Chrome workalike ought to attract more of those (I include myself) who’ve been less aggressive.

Brave is among the browsers based on Chromium, the open-source core of Google’s Chrome browser.Īccording to Eich, early adopters of Brave were already aggressive users of ad-blockers and other privacy defenders. In service of that mission, Brave is a fierce guardian of privacy it blocks ads and trackers by default, and can optionally use Tor. The Brave browser is, first and foremost, Brendan Eich‘s bid to detoxify the relationship between web content and advertising.

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