You will see stark difference between edge and brave. Click on any movie card (like the first one-aaaaaah!) and compare the results on normal default edge on Windows and on brave. Eg, visit this site with no ad-blocker (if you are on brave turn shields off, the lion symbol near url bar). So if you visit some sketchy site and click somewhere, it will redirect you to some scammy site which will ask you to download another. Brave blocks a lot of ads/trackers and most importantly, redirection of sites. Chrome/edge also have good security provision (unlike privacy features) but brave by default is better than them for security. Compared to downloading apps from google play store (aurora store/f-droid) which does not container any malware/viruses whatsoever.īrave protects you to a lot of extent from other browser like chrome with no ad-blocker. apk file when installed will likely contain malware. apk files from some sketchy website, the. Still, if you want more security you can run an AV like Kaspersky, Malwarebytes.īut, I will suggest if you are really ‘scared’ of malware to stick to windows official store and download. It does all the job a normal AV program does.

Windows already has an AV (anti-virus) software running in background all the time- Windows defender and firewall. exe file when executed will likely contain malware. But if you download brave.exe file from a fake sketchy looking site then there is that. So, if you download brave.exe from official website, then there will be no problem. Most malware/viruses on windows come from. No browser can protect you on 100% on windows.

I presume we are talking about Windows OS.

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