On: Protecting Against Browser-Language Fingerprinting

[0daystock]

Control-F for "canvas" - it's not discussed in the article. Canvas fingerprinting undoes all of these "protections" which Brave is talking up. Their mitigations are about as effective as changing your UA string these days - not at all. Most of Brave is like this - sounds technical and impressive, but it's mostly meaningless gibberish when viewed in full context. I mean, a "privacy browser" based on Chromium - I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[alibert → 0daystock]

They actually do handle canvas fingerprinting (I don't know to what extend):

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-P...

and a bunch of others fingerprinting methods.

[ajvs → 0daystock]

That's just one of many ways to fingerprint you. This blog post is only concerned with showing you how they are eliminating a different one.