OpenAI letting the US government host models on US government infrastructure to assuage security/privacy concerns + the worry around DeepSeek storing all data on Chinese servers is making the privacy story for LLM deployment pretty interesting.

Had to finally download the Twitter/X mobile app for this 🙈 should be a fun conversation!

For the first time, Brave leads the browser category in the 5th Annual Data Privacy Week Survey! Catch Brave privacy engineering lead Shivan Kaul Sahib live now on this X space! x.com/i/spaces/1ZkJz…

Also, don't miss the X Space featuring our privacy engineering lead Shivan Kaul Sahib and Bitwarden's CCO garyorenstein! It's live right now: x.com/i/spaces/1ZkJz…

Brave's best-in-class ad and tracker blocker has a powerful new option for advanced users. Starting with today's desktop update (v1.75), you can write and inject your own scriptlets into websites to further customize the browser's protections.

Between this demand for a *worldwide* backdoor, and arresting people for social media posts, it increasingly feels like the U.K. is the greatest threat to personal freedom in the world. Certainly more than China for anyone outside China. I hope Apple is prepared to leave.

can't tell if house is shaking because of windstorm or earthquake

"Brave is on a mission to fix the Web by giving users a safer, faster, and better browsing experience" - Brave's Shivan Kaul Sahib Read his interview with SafetyDetectives to find out how we develop privacy-first tech that's also user-friendly: safetydetectives.com/blog/brave-int…

Good interview with our Privacy Lead Shivan Kaul Sahib about Brave devouring the notion that privacy comes at the cost of convenience.

Omg I didn't understand what it means to "remove a browsing profile" on Chrome. I thought it signs you out on Chrome app, but it destroyed all my open tabs and logged me out of everything 🤦‍♂️. My ~200 open tabs just... gone. Taking the opportunity to switch to Brave browser again.

kartik ChatGPT told me Brave was more private

I wrote a quick new post on "Digital Hygiene". Basically there are some no-brainer decisions you can make in your life to dramatically improve the privacy and security of your computing and this post goes over some of them. Blog post link in the reply, but copy pasting below

.@Mozilla, if encryption is our last line of defense, you should be enabling HTTPS-Only Mode in Firefox 🔥 by default. It's still disabled, even in Private Browsing windows. That means Firefox still makes unencrypted connections to websites without warning users. Look:

When people ask why Web privacy is important, you can tell them about the time Blue Shield shared their sensitive medical data with Google Ads. Brave users are safe against these privacy-harmful 3p trackers because of the tireless work of filter list maintainers everywhere.

Using LLMs to detect and block cookie consent notices across the Web🍪

More user control over websites, please

Health insurance exchange Covered California says it "inadvertently" collected sensitive info from users through advertising tags on its website, and then shared that data with LinkedIn. If you're a Brave user, you were protected from this data breach.

I get different answers on whether or not power is out at our apartment from the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Web-based outage map depending on whether I check on mobile or desktop. Competence spans domains.