Expand Tracker Protection to Apps

Can you expand the below protection to include apps? I currently use DDG more due to this feature, but would like to convert to Brave full-time.

what do you mean app. That app inside the Brave, that if it is inside that the shield block everything include first party stuff if you turn on aggressive mode.

No, I mean Apps being ran externally from Brave. Somehow DDG was able to accomplish this with their app running in the background and does a great job blocking ad tracker requests produced by many other Apps.

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Alex Alonso

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it would be hard to do that, as this is a key selling point of brave engine that it is unliekly they do it i peroanlly think.

I agree with you, but do see value in pursuing this. Perhaps it can be considered for future implementation.

Thanks,
Alex Alonso

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Would need another app, and blocking via DNS (which would be needed) won’t be as good as Sheilds.

But again…DDG App was able make it work.

Thanks,
Alex Alonso

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@someguysomewhere overall what you’re requesting would essentially be Brave’s Firewall & VPN, which you can see at https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/9887719385485-How-do-I-use-Brave-s-Firewall-VPN and https://guardianapp.com/company/partners/brave/

Perhaps should see if @GuardianTeam can update the website as the one linked above and the screenshot below still speaks of it only on iOS but it should be the same for all OS using it.

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To be clear, all the app tracker does is check for data about to be send to any known 3rd party URL. There can be a lot of false positives in that as well. Let me show you official response from DDG developers below to kind of touch on what I’m saying:

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Final Thought:

All of that said, just might be a difference on what each decide to label as tracking URL and how it’s shown. Such as Brave Firewall + VPN doesn’t show a full list of blocked content or which apps it’s blocked from (to my knowledge).

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Hi everybody,

@Saoiray thanks so much for all the context I think you’re pretty spot on, however I’d like to correct one minor but important thing. You said that blocking may occur based on “data”, I think most people would assume that this is either happening based on the complete URL or the actual data sent in a request. Most all of these tools incl. Guardian works based on a few indicator but most important is the domain/hostname a request is going to itself. This is the reason why there are false positives. We do not and will not inspect the contents of a request as that would in most cases these days require us to break the TLS encryption, at which point we’d be a prime target to be included in terrible things or required to do terrible things. There is a subset of technology better not built at all.

I did also just update the partner website to reflect that Brave’s Firewall + VPN integration is available on all platforms now, except Linux.

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