3rd Party Cookie Blocking and Fingerprinting Does Not Seem to be Working

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Description of the issue:
3rd Party Cookie Blocking and Fingerprinting Blocking do not appear to be working when tested against Panopticlick.eff.org

|Does your browser unblock 3rd parties that promise to honor Do Not Track?|✗ no|

|Does your browser protect from fingerprinting?|✗
your browser has a unique fingerprint|

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.

  1. Went into Brave settings and set Block 3rd Party Cookies
  2. Went into Brave settings and set Block all fingerprinting
  3. In Brave browser, went to https://panopticlick.eff.org and ran test

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):

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Expected result:
Expected to see that 3rd party cookies are blocked and that no unique fingerprint was found.

Reproduces how often:
Every time. 5x

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
Mac OS Mojave Version 10.14.4

Brave Version 0.62.51 Chromium: 73.0.3683.103 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:
I’m new to Brave

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@jimriceus,
Thanks for reaching out – welcome to the team :slight_smile: :tada:
I believe this thread here may shed some light on the subject:

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Thank you so very much. This is great information. Awesome job!

Thanks,

Jim

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Hello all, we’ve recently worked with the EFF to update Panopticlick. Panopticlick’s results now correctly reflect Brave’s privacy protections. The site will now show desktop and Android Brave users that they have a very high level of privacy protection. We’re currently working to enable these protections for iOS users too.
Go to https://panopticlick.eff.org/ and test it out.