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YouTube Background Playback for Non-Premium Users Reportedly Blocked on Third-Party Browsers
Google has reportedly confirmed that it’s now blocking YouTube background playback on third-party mobile browsers, including Samsung Internet, Brave, and Vivaldi. This was a popular workaround used by non-Premium users. The latest update makes sure that background playback is still only available to YouTube Premium members. When trying to access ...
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Perplexity’s Comet AI Browser Is Vulnerable to Prompt Injections, Says Brave
A new study by Brave claims that Perplexity’s Comet browser and similar AI-powered browsers could be vulnerable to prompt injections. Researchers demonstrated how malicious instructions hidden in a webpage or image can trick the AI assistant into performing harmful actions, such as accessing emails or social media accounts. The findings highlight...
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Brave Search Gets AI-Powered Chat Feature With Support for Follow-Up Queries
Brave, the San Francisco-based software company, rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Brave Search on Thursday. Earlier this year, the company introduced ‘Answer with AI’ to its search engine, a feature that shows AI-generated summaries for searched queries. Now, it has added an extension to this feature dubbed AI chat mode...
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Brave Browser Is Bringing its AI Assistant Leo to Android Devices
Brave browser, known for its privacy-focused features, is bringing its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Leo to Android devices. The software firm first announced its AI chatbot in November 2023, when Leo was added to the desktop browser. The company’s chatbot can run on several large language models, which are available for both the free ve...
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‘Demonic’ Threat Looms Large Over Crypto Wallets, Metamask and Phantom Deploy Security Patches
Blockchain security firm Halborn informed Metamask, Brave, and Phantom among other wallet providers, about a vulnerability called Demonic. This threat, that hovers over those who access their crypto wallets via browsers, could lead to hostile takeovers of the attacked wallets. Affected wallet firms are deploying security solutions to tackle with th...
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Brave Web 3 Browser Adds Solana Support, Improves BAT Utility With Latest Update
The Brave privacy web browser is continuing its push into Web 3. The 1.39 desktop release now includes support for the Solana blockchain and its SOL and SPL tokens.
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Brave Browser Now Lets Users Bypass Google’s AMP Pages
Brave has introduced a new feature called De-AMP which allows users to bypass Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) to allow them to instead visit websites directly. With the new feature, Brave will rewrite links and URLs to prevent users from landing on AMP pages. It will also redirect users from AMP pages to non-AMP pages.
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Apple’s Default Content Filters Restrict iPhone, iPad Users From Searching for the Word ‘Asian’
Apple’s default content filters that are available through preloaded parental controls on iPhone and iPad are restricting users from searching for the word “Asian.” The restriction isn’t limited to the inbuilt Safari browser but also exists on third-party solutions such as Brave or Chrome.
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Brave Becomes First Browser to Integrate Native Peer-to-Peer IPFS Protocol
After updating to the latest browser version, Brave users can access decentralised Web content by entering an URL in the form of ipfs://{content_hash_ID}. The update brings native support for IPFS, and no extension will be required to access URLs that start with ipfs:// moving forward.
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Microsoft Edge Is Less Private Than Chrome Or Firefox, Shares URLs and Device Identifiers, Researchers Find
Microsoft Edge has been found to be among the least private web browsers while Chrome, Firefox and Safari are relatively more private.
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YouTube Background Playback for Non-Premium Users Reportedly Blocked on Third-Party Browsers
Google has reportedly confirmed that it’s now blocking YouTube background playback on third-party mobile browsers, including Samsung Internet, Brave, and Vivaldi. This was a popular workaround used by non-Premium users. The latest update makes sure that background playback is still only available to YouTube Premium members. When trying to access ...
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Perplexity’s Comet AI Browser Is Vulnerable to Prompt Injections, Says Brave
A new study by Brave claims that Perplexity’s Comet browser and similar AI-powered browsers could be vulnerable to prompt injections. Researchers demonstrated how malicious instructions hidden in a webpage or image can trick the AI assistant into performing harmful actions, such as accessing emails or social media accounts. The findings highlight...
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Brave Search Gets AI-Powered Chat Feature With Support for Follow-Up Queries
Brave, the San Francisco-based software company, rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Brave Search on Thursday. Earlier this year, the company introduced ‘Answer with AI’ to its search engine, a feature that shows AI-generated summaries for searched queries. Now, it has added an extension to this feature dubbed AI chat mode...
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Brave Browser Is Bringing its AI Assistant Leo to Android Devices
Brave browser, known for its privacy-focused features, is bringing its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Leo to Android devices. The software firm first announced its AI chatbot in November 2023, when Leo was added to the desktop browser. The company’s chatbot can run on several large language models, which are available for both the free ve...
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‘Demonic’ Threat Looms Large Over Crypto Wallets, Metamask and Phantom Deploy Security Patches
Blockchain security firm Halborn informed Metamask, Brave, and Phantom among other wallet providers, about a vulnerability called Demonic. This threat, that hovers over those who access their crypto wallets via browsers, could lead to hostile takeovers of the attacked wallets. Affected wallet firms are deploying security solutions to tackle with th...
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Brave Web 3 Browser Adds Solana Support, Improves BAT Utility With Latest Update
The Brave privacy web browser is continuing its push into Web 3. The 1.39 desktop release now includes support for the Solana blockchain and its SOL and SPL tokens.
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Brave Browser Now Lets Users Bypass Google’s AMP Pages
Brave has introduced a new feature called De-AMP which allows users to bypass Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) to allow them to instead visit websites directly. With the new feature, Brave will rewrite links and URLs to prevent users from landing on AMP pages. It will also redirect users from AMP pages to non-AMP pages.
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Apple’s Default Content Filters Restrict iPhone, iPad Users From Searching for the Word ‘Asian’
Apple’s default content filters that are available through preloaded parental controls on iPhone and iPad are restricting users from searching for the word “Asian.” The restriction isn’t limited to the inbuilt Safari browser but also exists on third-party solutions such as Brave or Chrome.
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Brave Becomes First Browser to Integrate Native Peer-to-Peer IPFS Protocol
After updating to the latest browser version, Brave users can access decentralised Web content by entering an URL in the form of ipfs://{content_hash_ID}. The update brings native support for IPFS, and no extension will be required to access URLs that start with ipfs:// moving forward.
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Microsoft Edge Is Less Private Than Chrome Or Firefox, Shares URLs and Device Identifiers, Researchers Find
Microsoft Edge has been found to be among the least private web browsers while Chrome, Firefox and Safari are relatively more private.
