Brave scores lower than Firefox and Chromium on some EFF fingerprinting tests

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@Mythical5th

In the Screen Size and Color Depth

This is referring to what you have your current window open to. As the website tells you, it’s “too brittle” because the value fluctuates quite a bit depending on what a person has their window set to. For example:

Maximized normal window:

Resized window:

Full Screen

@Mythical5th

In the WebGL Vendor & Renderer

In terms of WebGL Vendor & Renderer, this will show exact only if you have Graphics Acceleration enabled. This isn’t going to be randomized because it played a pivotal role in compatibility. As you can imagine, you are not the first person to ask about this and it’s certainly not the first time it’s been answered.

Below is a quoted excerpt from Shivan from Brave:

@shivan

About WebGL vendor and renderer debug strings specifically: we’ve experimented with farbling them by default, but this deviation from what every other browser is doing causes too much website breakage for not much privacy advantage. Fingerprinting protection is always a balance between website breakage (or webcompat) and privacy protection. Brave’s fingeprinting protections are already best-in-class.