Brave-browser: disable "search from the address bar"

[Tectract]

This is one of the absolute biggest bugs ever introduced into Chrome.

PLEASE, let us turn OFF "search from the address bar".

This is such a major privacy issue, it boggles the mind that I even have to point it out.

[hubitor]

I'm trying to find this setting. I use Brave primarily for my LAN addresses and when I try some things out Brave starts a search. This is very annoying. Is there really no way to disable it?

[rebron]

@hubitor @Tectract
I think this is the setting you're looking for.
brave://settings/appearance

We don't do search suggestion by default and the search engine would actually need to have that capability. Folks will need to turn that on here:
brave://settings/privacy

Closing.

[Tectract]

Please reopen this.

Autocomplete and search are two TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS.

Autocomplete does not leak whatever you may type in there out to search companies. Search from the address bar DOES.

Search from the address bar also PREVENTS many web-design tasks.

This is STILL A HUGE PRIVACY LEAK BUG IN CHROME. THIS TICKET SHOULD BE RE-OPENED UNTIL IT IS RESOLVED.

[Tectract]

PLEASE GIVE US THE OPTION FOR "NO NOT SEARCH FROM THE ADDRESS BAR", as a standalone option, for our own data security and privacy. Please listen to your users.

[rebron]

@Tectract What data are we leaking to search engines? Search suggestions are off by default, you have to choose to turn that on, and text don't go to a search engine until you hit enter or use the drop down menu to perform a search. There's likely an extension for this.

We're listening to you very attentively and all of our users, that's how these settings got implemented:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8572#issuecomment-597354146

[hubitor]

@rebron: indeed, it got better by deactivating the setting "Show autocomplete in address bar" but I think @Tectract is right. If I mistype something in the address bar, Brave still initiates a search. Sometimes I even enter accidentally a password in the address bar and practically searching the Web for it.

In Vivaldi, which AFAIK is also based on Chromium, I can deactivate the search in the address bar here: in Settings > Display All > Search Options > Search in Address Field.