Hi, seeing Brave being a niche browser. The User agent that it provides to endpoints isn’t very anonymous. Could you please add a setting to change User agents? I Would like to set my User agent to for example the latest Chrome browser to increase the privacy of requests.
yeah
what’s the point of brave if you’re going to be instantaneously exposed from user agents?
hopefully this isn’t a necro but even if it is, I can’t find the setting
@bellenumber31 you literally created an account to comment in a 4 years old post… maybe you should have created your own post asking a question? You knew you were necroing a post, you should have stopped there.
Also, Brave uses the same user-agent as Chrome and Chromium also simplified the user-agent since few versions ago and now now it shows only major versions. Which means, Brave will get blended even more with the other million users using Chrome 115.
How is that not good enough?
I mean, maybe you need to research about User-Agent, because something tells me you don’t know about it, but user-agents get send on every request, they are needed regardless if you want them or not.
The User-Agent request header is a characteristic string that lets servers and network peers identify the application, operating system, vendor, and/or version of the requesting user agent.
If you think having some random user-agent is good, well you are wrong, because if not you will get fingerprinted since you will be ‘more unique’ or completely unique.
And If you think you can hide the user-agent, well, you are also wrong, you can’t.
Of course, there are few uses when changing the user-agent is necessary, like using Bing AI Chat without Edge, but besides those few cases where it is necessary because the page expects a specific browsers, changing the user-agent will defeat the purpose of so much fingerprinting protection being implemented by Brave.
Yes, creating a unique user agent would make you more identifiable. However, some websites will show you the most common user agents in the United States and/or the world, increasing anonymity. So, having one in Brave would be helpful for those who know what they are doing.