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<blockquote data-quote="Prime" data-source="post: 251" data-attributes="member: 18"><h3>Brave fixes DNS leak issue through Tor onion resources</h3>The Brave browser developers have released a new stable version of Brave 1.20.110. The update fixes a serious privacy issue in the browser, fixes a crash on Linux systems and comes with a new version of the Chromium codebaseThe Brave browser has a native function for accessing .onion sites on the Tor network. This feature was introduced in June 2018 and has been optional since then. Designed to enhance privacy by routing connections through a chain of nodes, the Tor network improves anonymity and protects against wiretapping.To activate Tor mode in Brave, you need to press Alt + Shift + N or go to Menu &gt; New Private Window in Tor.Brave&#039;s implementation of Tor network support is not intended to completely replace the Tor Browser . On the support page, the developers emphasize this:One browser user last week discovered that Brave in Tor mode exposes the visited sites and the requesting party&#039;s IP address. Brave tried to process .onion domains using traditional DNS lookups, which the user thinks shouldn&#039;t happen.The new version of Brave has fixed this problem. DNS leaks no longer occur when using Tor mode in a browser.To check your current version of Brave, open the internal brave: // settings / help page or go to Menu&gt; About Brave. The check for available updates will start automatically. When a new version is found, it will also be downloaded and installed automatically.Also in Brave 1.20.110 we fix a crash that occurred on Linux systems when opening .onion links under certain conditions. Finally, the Chromium codebase has been updated to version 88.0.4324.192.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Prime, post: 251, member: 18"] [HEADING=2]Brave fixes DNS leak issue through Tor onion resources[/HEADING] The Brave browser developers have released a new stable version of Brave 1.20.110. The update fixes a serious privacy issue in the browser, fixes a crash on Linux systems and comes with a new version of the Chromium codebase The Brave browser has a native function for accessing .onion sites on the Tor network. This feature was introduced in June 2018 and has been optional since then. Designed to enhance privacy by routing connections through a chain of nodes, the Tor network improves anonymity and protects against wiretapping. To activate Tor mode in Brave, you need to press Alt + Shift + N or go to [B]Menu > New Private Window in Tor[/B]. Brave's implementation of Tor network support is not intended to completely replace the Tor Browser . On the support page, the developers emphasize this: One browser user last week discovered that Brave in Tor mode exposes the visited sites and the requesting party's IP address. Brave tried to process .onion domains using traditional DNS lookups, which the user thinks shouldn't happen. The new version of Brave has fixed this problem. DNS leaks no longer occur when using Tor mode in a browser. To check your current version of Brave, open the internal [I]brave: // settings / help[/I] page or go to [B]Menu> About Brave.[/B] The check for available updates will start automatically. When a new version is found, it will also be downloaded and installed automatically. Also in Brave 1.20.110 we fix a crash that occurred on Linux systems when opening .onion links under certain conditions. Finally, the Chromium codebase has been updated to version 88.0.4324.192. [/QUOTE]

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