The latest version of Brave Nightly is testing two main features. There’s an existing feature called Containers, which has been improved. Also, clicking through a website’s privacy menus until the tracking boxes are turned off won’t be a chore anymore; Brave can handle that automatically.

An engineer at Brave recently said that both of these experiments are live in Brave Nightly. These improvements haven’t yet made it to the stable version at the time of writing, and it could take a while.

The first major feature is about Traffic Controls. You can find it at brave://flags/#traffic-control. The text flag says that a site can open on its own, and it can open in a specific container that you choose. While Containers are already available in the normal Brave browser, this is an add-on.

Latest version of Brave Nightly.

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For those unaware, a container basically keeps two separate logins for the same site. You can have the same set of tabs open, but they don’t share cookies or site data. You can stay logged into two separate Twitter/X or Gmail accounts this way, on the same browser, without needing to use a separate profile or private window. Passwords and extensions remain shared.

The flag has been listed for all three major platforms: Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The other experiment is “Privacy Settings Tuning.” Brave Nightly can basically open a site’s settings and directly opt you out of third-party advertising, data sharing, and more. You don’t have to manually go into a website’s specific privacy settings area and turn it off manually.

It’s worth noting that this feature isn’t the same as Brave Shields. Shields is something that blocks ads and trackers in the browser, but Privacy Settings Tuning is website-specific. It can also prevent your data from being used for model training.

In other Brave news, an upcoming update to the desktop version of the browser is set to bring privacy improvements and overall bug fixes. More on that here.

 
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PiunikaWeb’s Take

Traffic Control is a straightforward new feature. Containers already let you keep two logins for the same site in one window, and sending a site into the correct box automatically is a small but useful feature.

Privacy Settings Tuning is the more interesting one. We’re yet to see how it’ll actually play out. If it can actually dig through a site’s privacy settings options and cookie policies automatically and opt you out of everything on its own, it’s a major new feature. We’re looking out for these features on the stable version of Brave soon.

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