Search engines recognizing Brave as Chrome

Browser Support Web Compatibility
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I am using the BRAVE browser with DuckDuckGo as my search engines. But when I go to the DuckDuckGo home page, I get a pop up message asking me to “add DuckDuckGo to CHROME”. But I am using BRAVE NOT CHROME, I do even not have chrome on my computer. It seems that the DuckDuckGo is recognizing Brave as Chrome, which scares me. I know Brave uses the Chromium base, but… Also, when I click on it it takes me to the Chrome app store and gives me the option to “add to Chrome”. Also, this same thing is happening with Startpage.

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**Did the issue present with default Shields settings? Yes

**What Operating System and Brave version/Build are you using when you encounter the issue?
Version 0.65.121 Chromium: 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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For now, all sites will recognize Brave as “Chrome” because Brave use Chrome user agent.

But we have an issue logged for DDG here (IIRC, DDG is whitelisted and should recognize Brave as “Brave”).

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