Fingerprinting: How do we know it's actually working

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Hi hi, thanks for the reply. yes, there is an error in your testing approach :slight_smile: if you’re testing in Brave in two private tabs, in the same session, you will intentionally get the same fingerprint. Brave varies the fingerprint by session, and by eTLD+1. The most common way to cycle sessions is by restarting the browser.

Opening private browsing mode will also create a new session, but all private tabs will share the same session until you restart the browser again.

So, any of the below will get you different fingerprints in Brave, but will get you the same fingerprint in all other browsers.

  1. one test in a “normal” tab, one test in a “private” tab
  2. one test in a “normal” tab, restart browser and test again in “normal” tab
  3. one test in a “private” tab, restart browser and test again in a “private” tab
  4. copying the page to a new eTLD+1, and re-running the test in the same session, across two diff top level eTLD+1

Hope that helps!

(also, make sure you’re on recent version of Brave, 1.9 or later)