Description
Leo AI, Wallet, Rewards, VPN and more disappear from Brave's toolbar, sidebar and settings. No script, no app: choose, download one file, open it and confirm.
1. Choose
Everything starts switched off. Check anything you use.
| Keep | Switch | Line in your file |
|---|---|---|
| Features | ||
| <key>BraveRewardsDisabled</key> <true/>"BraveRewardsDisabled"=dword:00000001 | ||
| <key>BraveWalletDisabled</key> <true/>"BraveWalletDisabled"=dword:00000001 | ||
| <key>BraveVPNDisabled</key> <true/>"BraveVPNDisabled"=dword:00000001 | ||
| <key>BraveAIChatEnabled</key> <false/>"BraveAIChatEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| <key>BraveLocalAIEnabled</key> <false/>"BraveLocalAIEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| <key>BraveNewsDisabled</key> <true/>"BraveNewsDisabled"=dword:00000001 | ||
| <key>BraveTalkDisabled</key> <true/>"BraveTalkDisabled"=dword:00000001 | ||
| <key>BravePlaylistEnabled</key> <false/>"BravePlaylistEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| <key>BraveSpeedreaderEnabled</key> <false/>"BraveSpeedreaderEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| <key>BraveWaybackMachineEnabled</key> <false/>"BraveWaybackMachineEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| <key>TorDisabled</key> <true/>"TorDisabled"=dword:00000001 | ||
| <key>EmailAliasesEnabled</key> <false/>"EmailAliasesEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| <key>PsstEnabled</key> <false/>"PsstEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| Telemetry | ||
| <key>BraveP3AEnabled</key> <false/>"BraveP3AEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| <key>BraveStatsPingEnabled</key> <false/>"BraveStatsPingEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| <key>BraveWebDiscoveryEnabled</key> <false/>"BraveWebDiscoveryEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| <key>MetricsReportingEnabled</key> <false/>"MetricsReportingEnabled"=dword:00000000 | ||
| 17 switched off 0 kept | ||
2. Download
Covers Brave, Brave Beta and Brave Nightly.
Only your account on this Mac.Windows always applies it to the whole PC and asks for administrator permission.
unbraved.mobileconfig 7.7 KBunbraved.reg 1.3 KB
Checked against Brave 1.98 (stable, October 2026).
3. Install it
Your computer asks you to confirm a few times. That's normal.
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 On Windows |
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Note: Afterwards, Brave's menu says “Managed by your organization”. That's your file: Brave says this whenever its settings come from a file like this. Undo it and the message goes away.
Undo it
Restart Brave afterwards, and its own settings apply again.
| On a Mac |
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| Open System Settings → General → Device Management, select Unbraved, click the minus button (−) and confirm. |
| On Windows |
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| Download the undo file and open it, the same way you installed. It clears the 17 settings Unbraved can make, and nothing else. It's the same file for everyone. |
What each switch does
Brave's own settings often only hide a button. The file switches the feature itself off and keeps it off. (Tested on Brave 1.97, Mac and Windows.)
Turn off Leo AI in Brave completely
| Without UnbravedLeo has a toolbar button, a sidebar item, entries in Brave's menu and its own settings page. | With UnbravedLeo is switched off. Its toolbar button, sidebar item, menu entries and settings page are gone. |
AI answers in Brave Search come from the search engine, not the browser, so the file doesn't touch them.
Switch off only thisRemove Brave Wallet and the crypto features
| Without UnbravedBrave Wallet has a toolbar button, a sidebar item and a Web3 section in Settings. | With UnbravedBrave Wallet is switched off. Its toolbar button, sidebar item and Web3 settings are gone, and Brave stops looking up crypto addresses like .eth. |
Brave Rewards is a separate switch, just below.
Switch off only thisRemove Brave Rewards, the Rewards icon and Brave Ads
| Without UnbravedThe Rewards icon sits in the address bar, and sponsored images on new tabs are on by default. | With UnbravedRewards and Brave Ads are switched off. The Rewards icon is gone, and so are the settings for sponsored images and sites. |
This isn't the ad blocker. Shields keeps blocking ads on websites.
Switch off only thisTurn off sponsored images and sites on the new tab page
| Without UnbravedNew tab → Customize → Background Image → “Show new tab page ads”, on by default, and a switch of the same name in Top Sites for sponsored sites. It's a setting per Brave profile. | With UnbravedSponsored images and sites are part of Brave Ads, so switching off Rewards & Brave Ads switches them off, and both switches are gone. No separate switch needed. |
Remove the Brave VPN button
| Without UnbravedBrave VPN has a toolbar button, and the new tab page shows a VPN card offering a free trial. | With UnbravedBrave VPN is switched off. Its toolbar button and its new tab card are gone. |
Turn off Brave News on the new tab page
| Without UnbravedNew tab → Customize has a Brave News section. | With UnbravedBrave News is switched off, and its section in Customize is gone. |
Remove Brave Talk from the sidebar and the new tab page
| Without UnbravedBrave Talk has a sidebar item and a card on the new tab page. | With UnbravedBrave Talk is switched off. Its sidebar item and its new tab card are gone. |
Disable Tor windows in Brave
| Without UnbravedBrave's menu has “New Private Window with Tor”, and on a Mac so does the File menu. | With UnbravedTor windows are switched off, and that menu item is gone. |
Turn off Speedreader
| Without UnbravedSpeedreader has its own section in Settings. | With UnbravedSpeedreader is switched off, and its settings are gone. |
Turn off the Wayback Machine prompt
| Without UnbravedSettings has “Show Wayback Machine prompt on 404 pages”. | With UnbravedThe prompt is switched off, and its setting is gone. |
Remove Brave Email Aliases
| Without UnbravedEmail Aliases sits under Settings → Autofill and passwords. | With UnbravedEmail Aliases is switched off, and its settings are gone. |
Stop on-device AI and its model downloads (off in stable Brave for now)
| Without UnbravedStable Brave ships it switched off. It's an experiment on Brave's experiments page, brave://flags, called History Embeddings: search your history by meaning, using a downloaded AI model. | With UnbravedKept off, and the model doesn't download, even if Brave switches it on later or someone turns the experiment on. |
Turn off Brave Playlist (off in stable Brave for now)
| Without UnbravedIn stable Brave, Playlist is only an experiment in brave://flags for now, switched off by default. | With UnbravedKept off if Brave switches it on later. |
Turn off PSST, Brave's Privacy Settings Tuning Tool (off in stable Brave for now)
| Without UnbravedIn stable Brave, PSST is only an experiment in brave://flags, switched off by default. | With UnbravedKept off if Brave switches it on later. |
Turn off Brave's product analytics (P3A)
| Without UnbravedSettings → Privacy and security → Data collection has a switch for it. | With UnbravedP3A is switched off, and its switch is gone. |
Turn off Brave's daily usage ping
| Without UnbravedSettings → Privacy and security → Data collection has a switch for it. | With UnbravedThe ping is switched off, and its switch is gone. |
Turn off the Web Discovery Project
| Without UnbravedIt's off unless you joined, and Brave can invite you to join. | With UnbravedSwitched off and kept off. Its setting is gone, and Brave doesn't invite you. |
Turn off Brave crash reports
| Without UnbravedSettings → Privacy and security → “Automatically send diagnostic reports”. | With UnbravedDiagnostic reports are switched off, and that switch is locked off (greyed out). |
What it leaves alone
Apart from Brave's “Managed by your organization” notice, only the switches above change. Everything else stays as you have it.
- Shields: ad, tracker and fingerprinting blocking, as you set it
- Sync: bookmarks, passwords and history across devices
- Passwords and autofill: Brave's password manager keeps working
- Extensions: everything from the Chrome Web Store
- Your search engine: whatever you picked stays picked
- Privacy protections: De-AMP, Global Privacy Control, HTTPS upgrades and the rest
- Your data: the file has no settings for bookmarks, history or tabs
- Updates: Brave keeps updating itself as usual
A Brave policy generator, for admins too
Every switch is an official enterprise policy: Brave's own, plus one from Chromium for crash reports. Unbraved writes them into a configuration profile or a registry file. “Mac test result” is what the test on a Mac showed. A Windows 11 virtual machine applied the same 17.
| Switch | Policy | Off at | Mac test result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rewards & Brave Ads | Brave | true / 1 | Rewards icon and new tab ads settings gone |
| Wallet | Brave | true / 1 | Toolbar button, sidebar item, Web3 settings gone |
| VPN | Brave | true / 1 | Toolbar button gone |
| Leo | Brave | false / 0 | Toolbar, sidebar, menu and settings page gone |
| On-device AI | Brave | false / 0 | Off by default; nothing to see |
| Brave News | Brave | true / 1 | Its Customize section gone |
| Talk | Brave | true / 1 | Sidebar item and new tab card gone |
| Playlist | Brave | false / 0 | Off by default; nothing to see |
| Speedreader | Brave | false / 0 | Its settings gone |
| Wayback Machine | Brave | false / 0 | Its setting gone |
| Tor windows | Tor | true / 1 | Menu item gone |
| Email Aliases | Email | false / 0 | Its settings gone |
| PSST | Psst | false / 0 | Off by default; nothing to see |
| Product analytics (P3A) | Brave | false / 0 | Its switch gone |
| Daily usage ping | Brave | false / 0 | Its switch gone |
| Web Discovery | Brave | false / 0 | Its setting gone |
| Crash reports | Metrics | false / 0 | Its switch locked off |
Windows: Registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\BraveSoftware\Brave, DWORD values. Brave, Brave Beta and Brave Nightly read it, on Home and Pro.
Mac: A configuration profile for com.brave.Browser, .beta and .nightly, one payload per app.
Questions
- Is this safe?
- Why not just use Brave's own settings?
- Does it turn off Brave's ad blocker?
- Does it turn off AI answers in Brave Search?
- Does it work on Windows Home?
- Do I need administrator rights?
- What is the file?
- Why does my computer say the file isn't signed?
- Does it cover Brave Beta and Nightly?
- Will a Brave update bring the extras back?
- What does the * next to some switches mean?
- Can I change my mind later?
- What about Linux, Android and iPhone?
- Does Unbraved collect anything?
Is this safe?
Yes. It uses the settings Brave supports for managed computers, the same ones companies use to set up Brave for their staff. The file holds only the settings shown above, plus comments, and you can open it in a text editor first. It's a settings file, not a program.
Why not just use Brave's own settings?
They often only hide a button, and some extras can only be hidden. The file switches the feature itself off and keeps it off.
Does it turn off Brave's ad blocker?
No. Brave Ads are Brave's own ads: the opt-in ads of Brave Rewards, and the sponsored images and sites on new tabs. The images are on by default. Shields, which blocks ads on websites, stays exactly as you set it.
Does it turn off AI answers in Brave Search?
No. Those come from Brave Search, the search engine, not from the browser, so a browser setting can't reach them. The file switches off Leo, the AI assistant inside the browser.
Does it work on Windows Home?
Yes. Brave ignores a few kinds of policy on computers that no company manages, but none of the ones Unbraved uses. It was tested on Windows 11 Home, in a virtual machine.
Do I need administrator rights?
On a Mac, “Just me” asked for no password in testing. “Everyone” asks for Touch ID or an administrator password. On Windows, installing always asks for administrator permission once.
What is the file?
On a Mac, a configuration profile (.mobileconfig) that you approve in System Settings. On Windows, a registry file (.reg) that writes Brave's settings into the Windows registry.
Why does my computer say the file isn't signed?
Because it isn't. On a Mac, signing needs a private key at the moment the file is made, and your file is made right here in your browser. On Windows, every downloaded registry file gets this warning. Unsigned means nobody vouched for the file, not that it's unsafe, and you can read the whole file before you open it.
Does it cover Brave Beta and Nightly?
Yes. The Mac file covers Brave, Brave Beta and Brave Nightly. On Windows, all three read the same settings.
Will a Brave update bring the extras back?
It shouldn't. The settings stay until you undo them. Brave updated itself during testing, and everything stayed off. If Brave adds a new extra later, it isn't covered until this page adds it and you make a new file. The download section shows which Brave version the page was last checked against.
What does the * next to some switches mean?
Stable Brave ships those features switched off for now: On-device AI, Playlist and PSST. Unless you turned one on yourself in brave://flags, Brave's experiments page, nothing visible changes. Switching them off here keeps them off if Brave turns them on later.
Can I change my mind later?
Yes. Make a new file with different choices and open it. On a Mac it replaces the old one, as long as you pick the same “Just me” or “Everyone”; if you switch between them, remove the old one first. On Windows it sets exactly your new choices. Or undo everything, as shown above.
What about Linux, Android and iPhone?
Use Brave Origin. It's free on Linux, and available on Android and iOS, where Brave takes settings like these only from a company's device management.
Does Unbraved collect anything?
Your choices and the file: nothing. The file is made in your browser and never uploaded. The file itself only holds settings, so it can't collect or send anything.
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Brave Origin vs Unbraved
If you can, get Brave Origin. It's Brave's own minimal edition, and buying it pays for Brave's development, including the parts you keep using. Unbraved is a free option for Mac and Windows.
| Brave Origin | Unbraved | |
|---|---|---|
| Pays for Brave's development | Yes | No |
| What it is | Brave's own minimal edition: a separate app, or an upgrade to the Brave you have | A settings file for the Brave you already have |
| The extras | Left out of the separate app; switched off by the upgrade | Still in the program, switched off and hidden |
| Price | Paid, free on Linux | Free |
| Where | Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS | Mac and Windows |
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