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> We have also worked with browser vendors such as Brave to provide more accurate results for browsers that are employing novel anti-fingerprinting techniques.

Brave is a force for good.



I’m afraid their fingerprint randomizing methods may be doing more harm then good.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#smal...


There's one important distinction from that link:

> remember: very, very, very few users use anti-fingerprinting measures

At this point, Brave has 20-million-something monthly users, all of whom have fingerprint randomization enabled by default. Randomization definitely makes an individual stand out if nobody else is doing it, but it makes it almost impossible to distinguish from others using the same technique.


This sounds like “our results looked bad for Brave so we changed them”…




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