Remove modification

Windows

1. Close Brave and open the registry editor app
2. Open the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder, then Software inside that, and Policies inside that. Then open BraveSoftware and finally Brave.
3. Find the modification you want to remove, they should all be named appropriately (you can right click on it and click modify to select it) then set the value to the opposite of what it is now. To change the new tab page change the website inside the quotes to another website i.e to change it from brave search to duckduckgo set it to https://start.duckduckgo.com/.
4. Open Brave and verify that your changes have been applied by visiting brave://policy

Linux

Command line

1. Close Brave and open your terminal
2. Run the following command: sudo nano /etc/brave/policies/managed/brave_debullshitinator-policies.json
3. Find the modification you want to remove, they should all be named appropriately, and change the value to the opposite of what it is now (i.e to enable AI change BraveAIChatEnabled from false to true). To change the new tab page change the website inside the quotes to another website i.e to change it from brave search to duckduckgo set it to https://start.duckduckgo.com/.
4. Press Control + S and Control + X to save your changes.
5. Open Brave and verify that your changes have been applied by visiting brave://policy

Gnome files

1. Close Brave and open Gnome files.
2. Click on you current path bar (it will say "Home") and change the path from /home/username to /etc/brave/policies/managed.
3. Open the brave_debullshitinator-policies.json file.
4. Find the modification you want to remove, they should all be named appropriately, and change the value to the opposite of what it is now (i.e to enable AI change BraveAIChatEnabled from false to true). To change the new tab page change the website inside the quotes to another website i.e to change it from Brave search to Duckduckgo set it to https://start.duckduckgo.com/.
5. Save the file
6. Open Brave and verify that your changes have been applied by visiting brave://policy

Notable items to change

New tab page

The NewTabPageLocation policy allows you to change the home page for Brave. To return it to Brave's default homepage simply delete this line. If you wish to change it to another website just modify the link inside the quotes. i.e "NewTabPageLocation": "https://search.brave.com", -> "NewTabPageLocation": "https://start.duckduckgo.com",

Password manager

The built in password manager is disabled as it is insecure and stores all of you passwords in the system memory unencrypted. I recommend using a third party one such as Bitwarden or Proton Pass, but if you do wish to re-enable it, you can set the value of PasswordManagerEnabled to true (or 00000001 on windows).

Secure dns

By applying group policies, Brave will force disable secure dns. I have patched it to re-enable it but you can change it between three states using DnsOverHttpsMode if you wish:

• off: Disables secure dns
• automatic: Enable secure dns with insecure fallback defualt
• secure: Enable secure dns without insecure fallback. You will also have to add the DnsOverHttpsTemplates policy and set it to your url in the format of https://dns.example.net/dns-query{?dns} if you use this option.