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Brave
brave.com › glossary › user-agent
User Agent Meaning & Definition | Brave
February 8, 2024 - However, when combined with other ... that’s unique to you, and degrade your online privacy. The Brave browser generates user agent strings that set nonessential data elements to more general values....
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WhatIsMyBrowser.com
explore.whatismybrowser.com › useragents › explore › software_name › brave
Brave User Agents - WhatIsMyBrowser.com
November 8, 2024 - We have over 1,000 user agents for Brave which you can browse and explore. They are categorised by the browser, operating system, hardware type and so on; you can also see how popular a user agent is.
Discussions

How do i Permanently change user-agent? (Not developer tools)

🌐 community.brave.com
November 17, 2020
So i know how to change user agent using developer tools but that is only for the current tab that is open. How do i change user agent permanently? firefox useragent can be changed using about:config, but how do i do it for brave? i don’t know anything about coding/programming so need steps. More on community.brave.com

How to change user agent on Brave MacOS?

🌐 r/brave_browser
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March 11, 2025
Have you tried turning shields off for that website? More on reddit.com

Please make Brave randomize the user agent!

🌐 community.brave.com
August 12, 2022
Former Title before conversion to Feature Request topic: Why doesn’t Brave randomize the user agent? My UA is extremely unique (less than 0.01%). I am testing Brave’s fingerprint etc, considering moving all my browsing activities over to Brave (mainly because i like the ethos of the company ... More on community.brave.com

How do I tell if a user is using Brave as their browser?

🌐 stackoverflow.com
I have been messing around with the Brave browser (https://www.brave.com/), an I cannot figure out how to determine how if a user is using Brave. I used a simple document to output the user agent: ... More on stackoverflow.com
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Brave Community
community.brave.com › feedback › browser feedback
Configure user agent - Browser Feedback - Brave Community
October 22, 2019 - When I check my user agent, it’s very verbose showing both my device, language and browser. This makes it very easy to track! Could you please add an option to set a custom user agent, perhaps with some stock options such as chrome? This would increase privacy.
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51Degrees
51degrees.com › blog › detect-brave-browser
Detect Brave Browser and version | 51Degrees
Most browsers show their names in the User-Agent. But Brave is different and will instead appear as Google Chrome. In this blog, we’ll cover how to detect Brave.
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Brave Community
community.brave.com › browser support › desktop support
How do i Permanently change user-agent? (Not developer tools) - Desktop Support - Brave Community
November 17, 2020 - So i know how to change user agent using developer tools but that is only for the current tab that is open. How do i change user agent permanently? firefox useragent can be changed using about:config, but how do i do it for brave? i don’t know anything about coding/programming so need steps.
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Brave Community
community.brave.com › brave feature requests
Please make Brave randomize the user agent! - Brave Feature Requests - Brave Community
August 12, 2022 - Former Title before conversion to Feature Request topic: Why doesn’t Brave randomize the user agent? My UA is extremely unique (less than 0.01%). I am testing Brave’s fingerprint etc, considering moving all my browsing…
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Stack Overflow
stackoverflow.com › questions › 36523448 › how-do-i-tell-if-a-user-is-using-brave-as-their-browser
How do I tell if a user is using Brave as their browser?

As of April 2020, you can use this detection method to get a boolean answer to whether the user is using Brave or not:

(navigator.brave && await navigator.brave.isBrave() || false)
Answer from Daniel on stackoverflow.com
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Brave Community
community.brave.com › browser support › web compatibility
When will Brave get it's own User Agent? - Web Compatibility - Brave Community
January 22, 2021 - I do know a few people have asked this already but it’s been at least 1 year and we are not getting a clear answer for this question. Does brave have its own UA now or still doesn’t have its own UA? I think it’s high time, brave needs its own User-Agent and new users will look at Brave ...
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Brave Community
community.brave.com › browser support › mobile support
Change user agent in Brave Android Browser - Mobile Support - Brave Community

@poxion I think by enabling Script blocker for Google via Brave icon at URL bar will give you the “expected result”.

Answer from eljuno on community.brave.com
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What's My User Agent
whatmyuseragent.com › browser › br › brave
Brave - WhatMyUserAgent.com
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GitHub
github.com › brave › brave-browser › issues › 29048
User Agent String doesn't have unique information about browser is Brave. · Issue #29048 · brave/brave-browser
March 14, 2023 - Description The user agent string doesn't have any information about browser is actually a Brave. Steps to Reproduce Open develop tools Type navigator.userAgent Enter Actual result: It shows Mo...
Published: Mar 14, 2023
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/brave_browser › when is brave going to have it's own useragent?
r/brave_browser on Reddit: When is Brave going to have it's own useragent?
July 22, 2020 - Oh ok, because I felt it would be better if Brave doesent count to Chrome's marketshare and inflating the users of chrome even though we technically aren't using chrome. ... Agreed, additionally user agent isn’t everything. There are numerous other ways to figure out if a browser is chrome ...
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Brave Community
community.brave.com › browser support › web compatibility
Brave Browser User-Agent - Web Compatibility - Brave Community
December 15, 2019 - You guys had a User-Agent of your own in the first few months of Brave browser existence, but it was removed in April 2016. Therefore it is not possible to detect newer versions of Brave. Knowing how many users of my website are using Brave could be beneficial for my promotional tactics.
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Brave Community
community.brave.com › feedback › browser feedback
Configure user agent - #2 by dnarby - Browser Feedback - Brave Community
September 29, 2019 - It would be very helpful to be able to change the User Agent in Brave in settings to present at whatever browser you wished to avoid annoyances like this (and also to remember the settings for the specific pages). There is a similar topic open, don’t know if we can consolidate Change user agent...
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Brave Community
community.brave.com › brave feature requests › desktop requests
Linux user agent & fingerprint protection - Desktop Requests - Brave Community
November 11, 2023 - According to wikipedia, Linux has a 2.9% share on desktop users (and i very much doubt that even half of them are single boot users.) so basically Brave’s fingerprint protection is useless for Linux users (and i’m guessing mac users too, in fact mac users may have even more exposure, macs ...
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Brave Community
community.brave.com › browser support › ad-blocking
Anonymize user agent - Ad-Blocking - Brave Community
April 20, 2023 - I was browsing youtube on incognito window. Then I noticed youtube was suggesting me partially personalized content. I checked my request and noticed that HTTP request was sending my “personalized” language on “accept-language”. I’m worrying that with the combination of my IP-address ...
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GitHub
github.com › brave › brave-browser › issues › 43895
Add "Brave" to user-agent on iOS browser · Issue #43895 · brave/brave-browser
February 11, 2025 - Platforms iOS Description (filing this issue after discussions on this topic to get it out of Slack and over to the iOS General pod) On Desktop and Android, we have client hints to detect Brave: ht...
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Brave Community
community.brave.com › feedback › browser feedback
Configure user agent - #7 by chh_68 - Browser Feedback - Brave Community
September 12, 2019 - When I check my user agent, it’s very verbose showing both my device, language and browser. This makes it very easy to track! Could you please add an option to set a custom user agent, perhaps with some stock options suc…