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Aekant vs Brave

Love Brave Shields? Aekant has all of it — ads, trackers, custom filters, cross-site cookies, script blocking — and goes further: a fingerprint that changes on every page load, containers with their own tunnels, and an engine that isn’t Chromium. Tor-powered private windows are coming soon.

Switch to AekantFeature by feature
  • Built in
  • Coming soon
  • Partly
  • Needs an extension
  • Not available
FeatureAekantBrave
Ad blockingBlocks ads without installing anythingBuilt in: Built inBuilt in: Brave Shields
Tracker blockingBlocks known trackers by defaultBuilt in: Built inBuilt in: Brave Shields
Custom filter rulesAdd your own blocking rules and listsBuilt in: Built inBuilt in: Custom filters
Fingerprint protectionHow the browser stops sites recognising your deviceBuilt in: New fingerprint on every page loadBuilt in: Randomised per site, per session
Cross-site cookiesThird-party cookies blocked by defaultBuilt in: Blocked by defaultBuilt in: Blocked by default
Containers in one windowSeparate identities side by side, built inBuilt in: Built inPartly: Profiles in separate windows
Route per contextA different connection for each identityBuilt in: Saved tunnel per containerPartly: Device-wide paid VPN
Search engine per contextA different default search for each identityBuilt in: Per containerPartly: Separate private-window default
Tor network accessRoute a private window through TorComing soon: Coming soonBuilt in: Private windows with Tor
EngineThe rendering engine underneathBuilt in: Gecko — not ChromiumPartly: Chromium (Blink)

Why Brave users switch

Everything you get
with Aekant.

  • Everything Shields does — ads, trackers, custom filter rules, cross-site cookies, per-site script blocking — is built into Aekant too
  • Aekant generates a new fingerprint on every page load and navigation, not once per site per session
  • Containers in one window, each with its own cookies, logins and search engine
  • A saved tunnel per container instead of one device-wide VPN
  • Gecko engine — a real alternative to Chromium, not another build of it
  • No crypto, rewards or ads programme — just the browser
Coming soonTor-powered private windows — and more advanced protection already in development. Aekant updates are delivered straight to your browser, so every new feature reaches you automatically.
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Switching takes a minute

Three steps to
a browser that leaves no trail.

  1. 01

    Download Aekant

    Pick the installer for macOS, Windows or Linux — we detect your system for you.

  2. 02

    Create your containers

    Set up Work, Banking, Personal or anything else, each with its own search engine and tunnel.

  3. 03

    Browse with shields up

    Ads, trackers and fingerprinting are handled from the first page you open.

Sources

About the Brave column.

Brave Shields block ads and trackers, support custom filter lists, and randomise (“farble”) fingerprinting values per site and per session. Brave is built on Chromium. The Brave column above is based on these vendor sources.

Brave — Fingerprinting protectionsBrave — Shields: ad, tracker and fingerprint blockingBrave — Firewall + VPN

Default desktop features as documented by the vendor in October 2026. Not a benchmark or security certification.

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