Emoji reactions in Brave

Brave is chosen by people who read the permissions. This page is written for them: what Emojery sends, what it never sends, and who can check.

Install it

  1. Open the Emojery listing on the Chrome Web Store, in Brave.
  2. Click Add to Brave, then confirm.
  3. Pin it to the toolbar so the popup is 1 click away. Step by step.
Drawing Pinned, the icon sits beside the address bar and counts the Emojery buttons on the page you are looking at.

What you get in Brave

The Emojery button in a site's action row, next to the site's own Like, Dislike and Share controls
The button joins the row the site already has, wearing that row's shape and colors.
Installs from Chrome Web Store
Reviewed by Google, before the listing is published and again on every update
Mobile Desktop only. On Android, use Firefox or Edge - the Android section of the install page has the full list.
Trackers None. Emojery ships no analytics and no advertising code
Private windows Off until you allow it on the extension's details page. What changes there
Price Free, open source, no ads, no tracking.

What you are installing

The question Brave trains you to ask is what an extension sends. Emojery sends the address of the page you react on and an install identifier; your sign-in provider hands over an opaque id that is stored only as a one-way scramble, and no name or email is ever requested. Privacy lists all of it, and what it never collects lists the rest.

What is unusual is the part after that: every accepted reaction is written to a public append-only log, and the totals can be re-derived by a separate open-source program that never talks to our servers. You do not have to believe the counts. You can recount them.

Shields has nothing of ours to block: Emojery carries no ad or tracker requests. Its own traffic goes to the API, which is what the permissions page covers.

You can read every count without an account

Counts are public, so the picker shows them to anyone with the extension and no sign-in at all. The provider sign-in is what lets you add to a count, not what lets you see one.

If you only wanted to know how a page landed, you never have to give an address at all.

Decide where it runs

The master switch turns everything off, and Only selected sites gives every supported site its own toggle on top of it. A site switched off gets no picker and nothing is sent for it. How to use both.

Using a different browser?

Add it to Brave

Everything it sends is written down on the pages above, so there is nothing left to take on trust.