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Fingerprinting Protection Mode

yan zhu (@bcrypt) edited this page May 29, 2016 · 27 revisions

Intro

Brave includes best-effort defense against browser fingerprinting. Broadly speaking, browser fingerprinting is the detection of browser and operating system features that differ between users for the purpose of invisibly (and non-consensually) identifying them and tracking them across the web. Although fingerprinting attacks will always be possible, it is worthwhile for us to make these attacks as slow / costly / difficult as possible.

Because most browser fingerprinting defense requires disabling web features that are required for many sites to work properly, it is implemented as off-by-default for now (can be turned on in about:preferences globally, or on a per-site basis in the Bravery panel). We will consider turning it on-by-default when we have fingerprinting detection heuristics with a sufficiently-low false positive rate.

Fingerprinting methods blocked in Fingerprinting Protection Mode

TODO

Further reading