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Brave Default Setting Improvements #463

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Shrinks99 opened this issue Feb 8, 2024 · 1 comment
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Brave Default Setting Improvements #463

Shrinks99 opened this issue Feb 8, 2024 · 1 comment
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Shrinks99 commented Feb 8, 2024 •
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Some of Brave's settings aren't good defaults for crawling.

  • Embedded LinkedIn posts are blocked by default to preserve privacy — probably with good intention, but it also means they won't be captured by the crawler!
  • AMP pages are redirected automatically — unsure if this is good or bad, seems like possible added hassle when figuring out scoping?
  • Tracker and ad blocking is set to Standard, unsure what this does
  • Cross site cookies are blocked — likely fine?
  • Widevine is off by default — likely not an issue, crawling DRM content doesn't work.
  • IPFS is set to "Ask" and requires user input, won't work when crawling
  • Brave's analytics are on, would probably be good to turn these off? We're not real users :P
  • Brave's shields (default adblock and tracking protection) are on by default

User Story

As a user, I'd like my crawler's default settings to offer the best chances of success!
@Shrinks99 Shrinks99 added the enhancement New feature or request label Feb 8, 2024
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@Shrinks99 Shrinks99 changed the title Brave Default Settings Brave Default Setting Improvements Feb 8, 2024
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tw4l commented Feb 9, 2024

Thank you for doing this investigation! I agree that it'd be wise to tweak the default profile to fit user expectations a bit better.

We could also potentially have a selection of "base profiles" that users could extend from or ignore as they wish, e.g.:

  1. All Shields Disabled
  2. Webrecorder default
  3. Aggressive Ad + Cookie Blocking

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Add group policies, limit browser access to container filesystem (#579)
068ee79 
Add some default policy settings to disable unneeded Brave features.
Helps a bit with #463, but Brave unfortunately doesn't provide all
mentioned settings as policy options.

Most important changes are in
`config/policies/lockdown-profilebrowser.json` it limits access to the
container filesystem especially during interactive profile browser
creation.
@ikreymer ikreymer mentioned this issue Jun 15, 2024
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