Re:Getting Started with Brave
by curiousgal on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:52PM
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I am fairly technical and I prefer Brave because of the anti-fingerprinting.
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Re:Getting Started with Brave
by jonathansampson on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:45PM
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More specifically, Brave's clever use of "farbling" is one really neat element of the anti-fingerprinting logic. After all, if a browser just blocks access to certain APIs, that blocking itself could be enough to fingerprint a user. We instead farble the results of certain APIs: https://brave.com/privacy-updates-4/
What does https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ show for Brave?
Re:Getting Started with Brave
by curiousgal on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:01PM
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Here you go
That's better than with Firefox, where I get a unique fingerprint