Basic Fingerprint Blocking Concept

[Mattches]

@carla_rogers,
We have a couple posts here from our Senior privacy researcher Pete Synder that you may want to read through:

Fingerprinting: How do we know it's actually working

I’m not sure if fingerprinting blocking is really working - please help? When I go to https://panopticlick.eff.org using Brave on 3 different platforms, all with “Block All Fingerprinting” turned on, that fingerprinting web site sees info that Brave should be blocking. Brave on MacOS, Windows, Android, I’m seeing tons of information that is unique on each platform - browser version, platform, screen size, touch points, memory, etc. When I use other browsers, I see the same info - so it looks l…

Do you ever want all fingerprinting turned on?

Hi @BWPC. By default, Brave applies our randomization based fingerprinting protections to all sites, in all contexts. So, you’re always receiving very strong protections. These protections are designed to protect you against web scale trackers (analytics companies, advertisers, etc.), the same kinds of protections that our ad and tracker blocking targets. We expect that some of these protections could be worked around by very determined attackers, who would be willing to perform a large numbe…