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Searchjacked: Hidden Browser Extensions Hijack Searches for 13 Million Users
319 browser extensions installed by 13.4 million users hijack searches, capture queries, and collect referral payments from Yahoo and Bing.
@openclaw/brave-plugin
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Official Brave Search provider plugin for OpenClaw.
This plugin registers Brave as a web_search provider. It supports normal Brave web search and Brave LLM Context API mode.
openclaw plugins install @openclaw/brave-plugin
Restart the Gateway after installing or updating the plugin.
Store a Brave Search API key in plugin config or expose BRAVE_API_KEY to the Gateway:
openclaw config set plugins.entries.brave.enabled true
openclaw config set tools.web.search.provider brave
Provider-specific options live under plugins.entries.brave.config.webSearch.*.
Full setup, config examples, search modes, and tool parameters:
brave@openclaw/brave-plugin2026.4.10FAQs
OpenClaw Brave Search provider plugin for web search.
The npm package @openclaw/brave-plugin receives a total of 1,420,123 weekly downloads. As such, @openclaw/brave-plugin popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @openclaw/brave-plugin demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.

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