No, that’s absolutely incorrect. You want a new fake fingerprint every single time someone asks your browser for your information. You want it to lie about your plugins, user agent, your fonts and your screen size. Bonus if you use common values, but not necessary.
The randomized data they’re providing isn’t static and it isn’t the same from session to session.
100% White noise is a far better obfuscation than a 40% non-unique tracking ID. Yes, your data is lumped in with 47 million other users, but used in conjunction with static pieces of your data you become uncomfortably identifiable.
So far, as far as I can tell, for desktop, yes.
Brave plus privacy badger seems to be the strongest anti-fingerprint that you can lay your hands on at the moment.
I have waded waist deep through about 15 anti-Brave posts where people have told me to try different combinations of plugins and browsers. Somebody claimed duckduckgo would do it, but once I installed it and found out it didn’t support plugins, I walked away immediately.
Everybody seems to direct most of their hate toward the CEO and the crypto. As far as I’m concerned those two things don’t bother me anywhere near as much as their thirst for funding. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have any qualms about selling 100% of my data off to anyone willing to pay to stay afloat. But in the end that’s probably not all that different from Microsoft or Google.
Brave is keeping up with the Joneses for YouTube ad blocking. It’s reasonably quick and supports all of my Chrome plugins.
I absolutely cannot get Firefox to pass the fingerprint test. If I could convince Firefox to pass that test I would strongly consider backing off my usage of brave.
Unique fingerprint is bad.
Let’s say you signed up on my econmerse website. Let’s say you gave me your name phone number, address, what have you. I can collect information about your user agent screen resolutions and layout and list of plugins and generate a unique fingerprint tied to that data.
I can then sell that fingerprint along with your phone number and email address to anyone that is interested.
Something like Lexus Nexus goes and buys that fingerprint from me, and they can now correlate your “anonymous” browser session with name address and phone number.
Can’t do safari, but I’ll check out ddg
edit: Did DDG install in windows, It still has a unique fingerprint, failed that part of the coveryourtracks test for fingerprinting
I figured I’d just install one of the privacy extensions. It does not support extensions. No privacy addons, no external password managers.
Of a lesser worry, they’re still openly selling off tracker data to microsoft (data as of 2022) but to be fair brave might be selling my data to them in different ways.
I’ll keep my eyes out, but it looks like for now, DDG is a no go.
You’re right, but you can’t reason with them.
They just repost the same dozen articles from the same places about the times that brave did stupid shit to make money three-four years ago.
Ohh the start page is scummy! yeah i changed it
Ohh they have crypto, yeah i don’t use it
Ohh there’s an icon for it on the task bar, yeah i turned that off.
Ohh they’ll sell your data. My data’s been sold by worse.
Ohh google will sell your data. That was already the worse.
I’ll get downvoted into the ground, but right now, Brave with shields up + privacy badger is the only browser I can run with javascript enabled that does a half decent job at anonymizing my fingerprint, verifiable by https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
“your browser has a randomized fingerprint” I don’t see that anywhere else that’s more reputable.
I’m less worried about them selling my crap than Amazon and Google tracking me through my fingerprint.
As long as they manage to disable the ad bullshit google is shoving in the browser, I’ll keep using them. I also have a copy of firefox kept in sync with brave in case I never need to walk away.
The internet as we knew it was based on something that doesn’t exist anymore.
Back in the '90s the internet was a million small companies all posturing and juggling for position. The great late capitalism push means that everybody needs to make 20% more every year which is completely possible to do when you’re tiny.
The advertising fire hose back then was enough to expand small companies year-over-year. The return on investments from some well placed static ads, and then later on YouTube ads was more than enough to oil the gears of commerce.
Now the only thing that’s left are the mega corporations, They can’t sustainably expand at 20% per year, but they sure do like to buy up those tiny corporations.
Advertising is no longer sufficient, so subscriptions are going to creep in. At some point subscriptions will no longer be sufficient.
Nothing was ever free, we were the product. In the current economic situation we’re no longer as profitable a product. Interest rates exist again venture capital is drying up.
At some point everything we use that’s not private community funded is going to end up being paid for by both a subscription and advertising
I was honestly kind of hoping more web 3 peer-to-peer stuff would be the final answer but all those projects seems to be fizzling out.
Fwiw, put /tmp on its own partition and mount it with noexec