So, let’s cut to the chase and jump right back to Leo, who is waiting for us in the sidebar, idling away. Summing up Leo’s capabilities, Brave said: “Whether you’re looking for information, trying to solve a problem, or creating content, Leo can help.” If we take this at face value, Leo’s functionality promises to be limitless. Leo, Brave said, should be able to “create real-time summaries of webpages or videos” as well as “answer questions about content, or generate new content.” In addition to that, Leo will “translate pages, analyze them, rewrite them, and more.” Declared capabilitiesĪnnouncing Leo, Brave described its skillset as similar to that of its potential rival, Bing AI - a GPT-4-powered chatbot, built into Microsoft’s Edge. …and it will materialize in front of you on the right side of the screen. To summon the genie AI-powered assistant, you need to just type anything in the address bar, then click ‘ask Leo’ in the drop-down menu… We’re suckers for new AI-powered toys, and after testing Bing AI and playing around with others, we couldn’t resist the chance to check out Leo and see how smart and private it is.īy default, Leo is relegated to the sidebar. The chatbot is built into the desktop version of the browser (Brave says it will be coming to mobile soon), and was made available to all users for free. If you are dying to see the full changelog, head over to GitHub, as usual.In early November, Brave, best known for its privacy-focused browser, launched its own AI chatbot called Leo. To sum upĪs always, we don't mention here less significant but numerous other fixes and micro-improvements, but be sure that they have been deployed, forming a solid foundation for best user experience and the future of the product's development. Note: some antiviruses ( cough Avast cough) are still using the older version of TLS (v1.2), so in order to avoid compatibility problems we switch to TLS 1.2 if one of these AVs is detected on the PC. ![]() Now, as TLS 1.3 standard was officially accepted by IETF, we are happy to say that AdGuard supports the most modern encrypting standards. Up to this moment we were using a draft of TLS 1.3 technology ( #2155), as we always wanted to be at the cutting edge. TLS is a web protocol that is essential for today's Internet. Not sure what's the difference between those drivers? Don't worry, the important part is, this change allows to avoid compatibility issues with other software, especially with antiviruses. ![]() The current way of whitelisting apps from filtering for WFP driver has been extended to TDI driver. Avast Free prevents AdGuard from suppressing QUIC #2310 So from now on, only relevant connections will be reset, as simple as that. What AdGuard doesn't have to do is resetting connections that it is not going to filter anyway (think of whitelist and some non-browser apps). AdGuard needs to reset network connections when it starts/restarts its service in order to properly filter them. This one probably requires a little bit of explaining. Unrelated TCP connections get reset when starting AdGuard service #2291 The blocking capabilities have been improved too, of course. You can whitelist websites there or disable notifications for certain websites. It’s been around forever, but the new version for the first time features its own UI accessible from “Extensions” settings tab. As it’s clear from its name, it helps block various popup windows (most of which are all kinds of ads). ![]() Popup Blocker is an extension (userscript) that is added to AdGuard by default. ![]() Popup Blocker has been updated to v2.5 #2295 Oh, and let’s also not forget about the improved Popup Blocker! This doesn’t mean everything else was abandoned, on the contrary, there’s been a lot of ad blocking and UI-related fixes and improvements, it's just that the network-related fixes happened to be the most important ones. This version makes a strong accent on the Networking issues. However, it's about time we wrapped up all cumulated updates to roll out the fresh version of our program. Getting a complicated and function-packed product such as AdGuard for Windows to a release state is never easy: after each implemented fix or improvement there always seems to be yet more room for "one last touch".
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