Security News > 2023 > June > Brave Browser boosts privacy with new local resources restrictions
The Brave team has announced that the privacy-centric browser will soon introduce new restriction controls allowing users to specify how long sites can access local network resources.
"Surprising though it may be, most browsers allow websites to access these local resources just as easily as they can access other resources on the web," explains Brave.
Brave says all major modern browsers, including Chrome and Firefox, allow websites to request access to local resources and use them without restriction.
Brave is introducing a localhost access permission to tackle this problem while still permitting sites they trust to access local resources for a limited time.
"Brave is the only browser that will block requests to localhost resources from both secure and insecure public sites, while still maintaining a compatibility path for sites that users trust," pledges the Brave team.
At the same time, Brave will maintain and update an allow-list of trusted sites that will be allowed to prompt users to permit them to access local network resources upon their first visit.