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by byte_022 hours ago |
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upvoteby asdf8899022 hours ago|
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As a general role, always be suspicious of very loud and vocal opinions about product and services. Specially for closed source products and paid services, they often invest in what is called Native Advertisement/Marketing which is basically paying people to lie and pretend it is organic content/opinion.

Second, despite the dumpsterfire that Mozilla’s leadership has been in a decade or so, it is very robust with privacy and anti fingerprint features out of the box, the containers has also stabilised and works great.

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upvoteby pnw21 hours ago|
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Brave outperforms Firefox on the EFF fingerprinting test at https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Using Brave EFF reports that I have a randomized fingerprint.

Using Firefox or Edge EFF reports I have a unique fingerprint

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upvoteby nvme0n1p120 hours ago|
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I see so many misconceptions on HN about that coveryourtracks site. Neither of those results are ideal.

"randomized fingerprint" -> that's a bad result, it means the site can detect you're spoofing info

"unique fingerprint" -> this is good, ONLY IF you refresh and it still says "unique fingerprint", because it means the site sees you as a brand new visitor each visit, and doesn't detect any (what advertisers would call) nefarious behavior. however, if you visit again and the second time it says "nearly-unique fingerprint", that's a fail because your two visits were linked

The ideal result you should aim for is "non-unique fingerprint". That means your device is indistinguishable from countless others. Blending in to the crowd is what you want.

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upvoteby unicornfinder21 hours ago|
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These tests aren't reliable - Brave does randomise values but it ultimately doesn't do much to prevent fingerprinting, as many values remain static. For example, Brave still exposes your GPU model and driver version.

See Fingerprint.com, despite Brave's protections you'll likely find it works reliably.

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upvoteby gib44413 hours ago|
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> Brave still exposes your GPU model and driver version

They made some improvements August this year

https://brave.com/privacy-updates/38-webgl-webgpu-fingerprin...

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upvoteby SV_BubbleTime21 hours ago|
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> Brave still exposes your GPU model and driver version.

I love that things like this are coming too light. But, I fucking cannot understand how anyone would’ve ever thought this was OK.

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