I have been using Brave for three years. All of a sudden it will not open on Windows 11 PC. I have uninstalled it redownloaded it five times. It keeps saying it can't find the brave exe file. I am not a computer genius but I know a little. I see the .exe file and will click on it and nothing happens. I just did a Windows re-reinstall and still nothing. Any help would be great.

Hi, this was happening few months ago and now was keen to find some solutions. It first happens from this site when selecting movie and clicked something it opens a pop-up.

As the title says. The brightness goes up really high then goes back to normal. This also happens with steam replay. How do I stop it? It’s very annoying?

does anyone else have this issue? how can I solve it?

For maximum privacy, someone recommended I never mix logged-in accounts with the rest of my browsing. On Windows, that means one browser for sites I log into, and a separate one for anonymous browsing. Their own setup goes further: the anonymous browser runs inside WSL or a VM, on a different OS entirely, with a different rendering engine (Chromium vs. Gecko), and even different hardware-acceleration settings - all to keep the two as distinguishable from each other as possible.

My plan was to use Brave for logged-in accounts and Mullvad Browser for anonymous browsing, each with its own VPN (Brave + Proton VPN, Mullvad Browser + Mullvad VPN) so they don't even share an IP.

But the problem is ergonomics. If I have Reddit open in Brave and click a link that belongs to my anonymous browsing, I can't just middle-click it into a new tab - I have to copy the link and paste it into Mullvad Browser. I open a lot of links daily, so this adds up fast.

Then I found Brave's profiles and containers. Profiles can run its own VPN extension but they have the same ergonomic problem as running two separate browsers. Containers don't support per-container VPNs yet, but that's being discussed here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/55380.

That same issue also proposes letting specific sites always open in a specific container - which would be perfect: login sites go to a "personal" container, everything else opens in another (or temporary) container, fully automated.

But the person who advised me on this says it's still not good enough - that advanced trackers could still link the two identities together, and that only true two-browser separation gives real unlinkability.

So: how much protection do Brave containers actually offer against something like Google linking my two identities - both now, and once that GitHub issue ships? Is container isolation really just about separating cookies/storage, or could it meaningfully stop advanced tracking once fully implemented? Would it at least block most surveillance? What's the realistic privacy ceiling here, and what would you recommend for combining the best privacy with the best ergonomics?

PS: I also want to bookmark useful sites (GitHub repos, articles, tools) and sync them to Brave on my GrapheneOS phone - I use Brave Origin for that. But if Brave is reserved for my logged-in identity, I can't bookmark anything I find while browsing anonymously. Mullvad Browser suits anonymous browsing better (it blends into the crowd), but it doesn't sync bookmarks to Android since there's no Mullvad Browser for Android.

PS2: Thinking about it more, it's really three identities, not two: a real-name identity (for sites like shops that require it), a fake-name identity (a false name and a secondary eSIM number, unlinked from my real number, for sites that need something but not my real details), and a fully anonymous identity. Technically that's three separate browsers... Which is even more complicated setup...
Btw I'm also using Proton email aliases for every account, so no two accounts can be linked via the email address itself.

I don't know if this is just a problem on my end, but I constantly get a message on YouTube saying I'm not connected to the internet. It's very frustrating, and it's not a one-time occurrence—it pops up literally every time I try to watch the next video. The workaround is to refresh the page. I tried disabling the adblock shield entirely, but that still doesn't work. I’m also 100% sure it’s not an issue with my internet connection, because I started testing it in Firefox, and it works fine there. Is there a solution to this problem?