If you're particularly worried about privacy, go for the official Tor browser for now. Basically, if you like the cut of Brave's jib, try out its Tor mode. The browser biz advises downloading and using the full-blown Firefox-based Tor browser if you really need to protect your identity and hide your public IP address. 'Brave requires leak-proofing, which we intend to address in future versions (today is the beta release), as well as a New Identity button functionality, for instance,' Brave's spokesperson said. In other words, it may leak your public IP address. In addition to the unavoidable risk of software vulnerabilities, the Brave team noted that the current integration of Tor remains a work in progress. Like encryption program PGP, Tor amounts to pretty good privacy but it's not perfect. 'Browsing via Tor is typically somewhat slower than using an unprotected connection,' Brave's spokesperson said. There's another potential downside: performance. Some may not work properly or may limit interaction – Wikipedia, for example, restricts anonymous edits over Tor.

Other site may treat those using Private Tabs with Tor differently, too. 'If you're using Tor then Google will show a lot of challenges asking you to prove that you're a human, and that makes the site much less pleasant to use,' Brave explained on its website. Brave defaults to DuckDuckGo for search in Private Tabs with Tor, because Google treats anonymous users differently than those it can identify.

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