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Brave Browser Debloating Guide

Brave is an excellent, privacy-focused browser, but its default configuration comes packed with extra features that many users consider bloat. This guide will walk you through how to get rid of the bloat, hide the ads, and disable background services for a clean, minimal browsing experience.

Part 1: Clearing the Visual Bloat

The default start page and toolbars are crowded with Brave "cards," news feeds, and native crypto shortcuts. Fortunately, the surface-level clutter is easy to hide directly from the UI.

Clean the Start Page: Open a new tab, click the Customize button in the bottom right corner, and toggle off Brave News, Cards, and any unwanted background images or stats.
Clean the Toolbar: Right-click on the Brave Rewards, Brave Wallet, Brave VPN, and Leo AI icons located next to the URL bar, and select Hide.

Enabling VS Code Marketplace in VSCodium and Trae

Microsoft claims Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is open source, yet it restricts the use of its Marketplace extensions in non-Microsoft products like VSCodium (telemetry/tracking free open source fork), Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, and other VS Code-based IDEs, enforcing what some see as monopolistic control. This guide provides a workaround to enable the VS Code Marketplace in VSCodium and Trae (more to be added soon), allowing you to freely use extensions. Note that using the VS Code Marketplace with non-Microsoft products may violate its terms of use, which state that extensions are intended for use only with Microsoft Visual Studio products. Proceed at your discretion after reviewing the terms.

Enabling VS Code Marketplace in VSCodium

To configure VSCodium to use the VS Code Marketplace instead of the default OpenVSX Registry, you can either set environment variables or create a custom product.json file.

	[
	{
	"name": "Ruby: Debug Current File",
	"type": "ruby",
	"request": "launch",
	"program": "${file}",
	"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
	"useBundler": true,
	"pathToBundler": "/usr/local/bin/bundle",
	"pathToRDebugIDE": "rdebug-ide",

	/*
	This is a productivity enhancer plus some quality-of-life features that takes care of tedious tasks for you, saving time for what matters. Click on the tray icon to view hotkey info.
	You'll find an embedded INI at the bottom of this script. However, you have to follow these two steps before you can run this script:
	Download and unzip archive in `Lib` folder: https://github.com/thqby/winrt.ahk
	Download raw file into `Lib` folder: https://github.com/Descolada/UIA-v2/blob/main/Lib/UIA.ahk

	******** EIGHT-HOTKEY REMOTE ********
	Multi- and single-function hotkeys.
	TIP: change the `Run` setting to `Maximize` in the properties wnd of the Paint shortcut (b/c the snip feature can open Paint in a small wnd, which will be remembered by the OS).
	And go to `Settings > System > Focus assist` to turn off all `Automatic rules`, so that TrayTip notification banners can also be shown on the desktop wnd for example.

	# Configure the public AdGuard DNS server with DoH (Encrypted) programatically in W11.
	# https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html#:~:text=Configure%20AdGuard%20DNS%20manually

	# Define AdGuard DNS servers and their DoH template.
	$servers4 = @(
	# IPv4 default servers: block ads and trackers.
	@{ address = "94.140.14.14"; template = "https://dns.adguard-dns.com/dns-query" },
	@{ address = "94.140.15.15"; template = "https://dns.adguard-dns.com/dns-query" }
	)

	[
	// Terminal
	{
	"context": "Workspace",
	"bindings": {
	"ctrl-/": "workspace::ToggleBottomDock"
	}
	},
	// Window's navigation
	{

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name dark-mode
	// @match :///*
	// @grant none
	// @version 1.1
	// @author cjb
	// @run-at document-start
	// ==/UserScript==

	const adjustColors = () => {

	#!/bin/bash

	# Colors
	RED='\033[0;31m'
	GREEN='\033[0;32m'
	NO_COLOR='\033[0m'
	BLUE='\033[0;34m'
	YELLOW='\033[0;33m'
	NO_COLOR='\033[0m'

	#!/bin/bash
	# SteamOS Recovery Downloader and Flasher
	# script by ryanrudolf
	# https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba
	# https://youtube.com/@10minutesteamdeckgamer
	#
	# script will create the directory - ~/SteamOS-Recovery-Downloader and automatically download the latest SteamOS Recovery Image.
	# script will perform a md5 check to make sure that download is not corrupted and finally flash the image to the USB device.
	# if there are multiple USB devices, the script will exit immediately. Plug in a single USB device that you want to flash and re-run the script.
	#

	// Use like this: node --import logger.js yourapp.js

	import path from 'path';

	const { log } = console;
	[`debug`, `log`, `warn`, `error`, `table`, `dir`].forEach((methodName) => {
	const originalLoggingMethod = console[methodName];
	console[methodName] = (...args) => {
	const originalPrepareStackTrace = Error.prepareStackTrace;
	Error.prepareStackTrace = (_, stack) => stack;