LeanBrave is a PowerShell script that declutters the Brave Browser. It allows you to quickly toggle features on or off, optimizing your settings for better privacy and a cleaner experience.
Choose a configuration that matches your needs:
🌑 Maximum Privacy
- Telemetry: Blocks all reporting (metrics, safe browsing, URL collection, feedback).
- Privacy: Disables autofill, password manager, sign-in, WebRTC leaks, QUIC, and forces Do Not Track.
- Brave Features: Kills Rewards, Wallet, VPN, AI Chat, Tor, and Sync.
- Performance: Disables background processes, recommendations, and bloat.
- DNS: Uses plain DNS (Off) to prevent potential logging by DoH providers.
- Best for: Paranoid users, journalists, or activists.
🌗 Balanced Privacy
- Telemetry: Blocks all tracking but keeps basic safe browsing.
- Privacy: Blocks third-party cookies, enables Do Not Track; allows password manager and autofill.
- Brave Features: Disables Rewards, Wallet, VPN, and AI features.
- Performance: Turns off background services and ads.
- DNS: Uses automatic DoH.
- Best for: Most users who want privacy with convenience.
⚡ Performance Focused
- Telemetry: Only blocks metrics and feedback surveys.
- Brave Features: Disables Rewards, Wallet, VPN, and AI to declutter.
- Performance: Kills background processes, shopping features, and promotions.
- DNS: Automatic DoH for speed and security.
- Best for: Users who want a faster, cleaner browser.
🛠️ Developer Preset
- Telemetry: Blocks all reporting.
- Brave Features: Disables Rewards, Wallet, and VPN; keeps developer tools.
- Performance: Turns off background services and ads.
- DNS: Automatic DoH.
- Best for: Developers who need dev tools but hate telemetry.
Click here to view organized features
- Disable Metrics Reporting: Stops Brave from sending usage statistics.
- Disable Safe Browsing Reporting: Prevents sending data about potentially unsafe sites.
- Disable URL Data Collection: Stops the collection of anonymized URL-keyed data.
- Disable Feedback Surveys: Removes intrusive requests for browser feedback.
- Enable Do Not Track: Forces the "Do Not Track" header for all browsing sessions.
- WebRTC IP Leak Protection: Disables non-proxied UDP to prevent your real IP from leaking.
- Block Third-Party Cookies: Increases privacy by preventing tracking across different sites.
- Disable Password Manager: Turns off the built-in manager.
- Disable Autofill: Stops the browser from storing addresses and credit card info.
- Disable Browser Sign-in: Prevents prompts to sign into a Brave account.
- Force Google SafeSearch: Enforces strict filtering on Google results.
- Incognito Mode Control: Option to disable private browsing entirely.
- Disable Brave Rewards: Removes the BAT/Rewards system.
- Disable Brave Wallet: Completely disables the integrated crypto wallet.
- Disable Brave VPN: Removes the VPN button and services.
- Disable Brave AI Chat: Turns off the "Leo" AI integration.
- Disable Tor: Removes the ability to open private windows with Tor.
- Disable Brave Shields: Option to turn off the built-in ad-blocker.
- Disable Background Mode: Stops Brave from running after the window is closed.
- Disable Search Suggestions: Prevents sending keystrokes to the search engine.
- Disable Media Recommendations: Removes suggested content.
- Disable Spellcheck: Disables the built-in dictionary service.
- Disable IPFS: Turns off InterPlanetary File System support.
- Always Open PDF Externally: Forces PDFs to open in your system viewer.
- Set DNS Over HTTPS Mode: Configure secure DNS (Automatic, Off, or Custom).
- Disable Sync: Stops cross-device data synchronization.
- Disable Printing: Blocks web page printing.
- Disable Developer Tools: Prevents access to F12 / Inspect Element.
- Disable Default Browser Prompt: Stops Brave from nagging you.
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