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Brave's impact on tracking is fundamentally different from other browsers because its blocking operates at the script level, not just the cookie level. When a WooCommerce store loads for a Brave user, Shields scans every resource the page attempts to load against maintained blocklists — including lists from EasyList, EasyPrivacy, uBlock Origin, and Brave's own internally generated lists. Known tracking domains and script signatures are blocked before they execute.

This means client-side tracking scripts never fire. Google Analytics tags, Facebook Pixels, TikTok tracking code, and GTM containers are all identified as third-party tracking scripts and prevented from running. The store's conversion events, page views, and user behaviour data are simply never collected for these visitors. From the store owner's analytics perspective, these users do not exist.

Brave's Aggressive mode goes further by blocking first-party trackers as well — meaning even tracking scripts served from the store's own domain can be intercepted. While most users remain on Standard mode, the default protections alone are sufficient to eliminate virtually all client-side analytics collection.

Server-side tracking architectures bypass Brave's blocking entirely because they do not rely on browser-side script execution. When events are captured at the server level — from WooCommerce hooks, order processing, and cart actions — the data flows through the store's own infrastructure without ever entering the browser environment that Brave controls. This is the core architectural advantage of server-side tracking in a world where browser-native blocking is the default, not the exception.