This is because Brave, which integrated Tor in 2018, is a Chromium-based browser, meaning it uses the same architecture as Firefox and Google Chrome. That makes it near-impossible to trace a user’s web history, making the browser a perfect home for anyone in need of privacy: mostly activists, dark web drug barons and hackers.īut the bug, addressed in a beta and soon-to-be-fixed in a hotfix, leaked all that private information to DNS providers, meaning that internet companies could snoop on their users’ Tor activity. Tor obscures users’ web browsing activity by bouncing web traffic across a global network of relays.
onion addresses to domain name system providers. Brave has since addressed the matter in a hotfix, which is expected to go live soon.īrave, a Chromium-based, privacy-first browser that integrates the anonymous Tor web browser, has been leaking private.The bug is not new, nor specific to the Brave browser.Brave has been leaking private Tor info to DNS providers.
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