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Whoever uses Brave for "privacy" reasons should understand that Chrome offers more privacy due to fingerprintability. I see the downvotes coming yet it is true
by Angeo34 7y ago
Whoever uses Brave for "privacy" reasons should understand that Chrome offers more privacy due to fingerprintability.
I see the downvotes coming yet it is true check it for yourself. Brave is so easy to fingerprint compared to Chrome it defeats any purpose ever to use Brave in the first place if privacy is your main goal. Removing all the Google bits from the Chromium base doesn't help since you are so fingerprintable.
- songshuu 7y agoIf you're talking about the canvas id fingerprint which is identical across all instances of the browser, that lets Brave users hide in the crowd, so it's literally more private. Panopticlick needs to update their docs to make that clearer.
- Angeo34 7y agoThere are billion of vectors that are still fingerprintable. Best examples are fonts and window decorations. And these cannot be fixed by Brave without increasing entropy. And brave should know this.
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoHmm, I get identical results from Chrome and Brave on my Ubuntu desktop in Panopticlick, which doesn't disprove your argument, but it looks like Chrome is fingerprintable-enough that the difference may not matter.