yeah, blocked 12 tracking attempts. Why is the brave browser, making 12 attempts to collect tracking data from the device? which would surely be sent if i wasnt blocking. sorry i just dont know what your trying to say by explaining what is in the image.
yeah but the tracking attempts are coming from the browser itself. ive disabled analytics. why would the app still be trying to collect data? its 100% the brave browser.
@S7evin it’s because the tool isn’t working in the way as you’re thinking. Even what it is reporting is different than you’re stating. It shows it’s Google, not Brave, that was trying to get your data. So for you to say it was Brave collecting would be wrong. They just showed that this was happening within Brave.
DuckDuckGo have App Tracking Protection disabled for browsers in general because it’s not accurate and can cause breakage. Rather than me repeating, I’ll let you see it in the exact words from one of the developers from DuckDuckGo who responded to me on this before in the past. You’ll see screenshots from that in my post at Brave is lying to you - #3 by Saoiray
Also to quote myself:
When you use the internet and connect to Twitter or websites that have Twitter integration, then there will be requests. The DDG extension will report anything blocked even if Brave has blocked it. Also it tends to look only for what the website code says, not actually what occurred. So if a website is set to check Twitter, then DDG reports it checked it even if Brave had blocked it.
The above was about Twitter, but it can be any website. In the case of your screenshot, it was Google.
What does Brave use for analytics? Is it Google? I know they recommend not to activate the feature for browsers but that is only a recommendation and having it activated has not caused any issues for me, not even once.
Nope. Brave does their own analytics and I think a lot of what they do goes through Amazon web services for their hosting or whatever.
The only reason you should be seeing Google pop up like it is is if you’re signed into Google account or your accessing Google services at which point it is trying to request information about your device and stuff like what you noticed.
And of course keep in mind that Google is one of the biggest ad sellers so it may be that some of the websites that you’re visiting have AdSense.
Google AdSense if you aren’t familiar is the services that website can sign up for that would track how many users are visiting, show ads, and pay the website owner for the ads that people have seen when visiting. So in that sense it would be Google trying to fingerprint you and get your data so they know what to show you for ads and so they can also share that data with the website owner.
Brave would be blocking most or all of that anyway, but DDG ATP would be funneling the activity through their proxy so they would be seeing the request as well meaning that you would end up having both places reporting that they see it and blocked it.
