Brave, a browser that promises to prioritize you "not the big tech companies" announced the release, later this October, of its version 1.45. The novelty will block the pop-ups of cookie warnings that appear on most websites, disrupting the browsing of many users.
The update, which is already present in the development version of the application – Brave Nightly – will present a dialog box at startup, in which you simply click "yes" to have all cookie warnings blocked. The novelty works through a set of rules and filters already familiar to those who use ad blocking extensions in browsers.
On the browser's blog, Brave's team calls the cookie consent request "infamous and an almost constant porting," citing a study of this practice prepared by researchers at the Côte d'Azur University in France in 2019.
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One step ahead of Google:
To fulfill its promise to block the famous cookie banners, Brave will have to stay one step ahead of the companies that administer so-called "consent management systems," read Google. That's because Big Tech is preparing changes to the web that will make it harder to block cookie banners.
According to Brave's blog post, the Moutain View company's WebBundles proposal, which integrates entire sites into "bundles," will allow them to get around content blockers. In addition, the migration to Manifest V3, the next version of the Chrome extensions engine – scheduled for 2023 – will remove vital features from current browser extensions that protect and privacy.
"The web was made to be opened. On the one hand, this is great: it means that web tools that protect privacy, such as Brave, can act on behalf of users and protect them from abuse and annoyance," the browser ad concludes.
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