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> Do browsers ever try to fuzz any of these values? Brave does, and it is absolutely the right approach to fingerprinting. They call it "farbling" rather than
by KirillPanov 5y ago
> Do browsers ever try to fuzz any of these values?
Brave does, and it is absolutely the right approach to fingerprinting. They call it "farbling" rather than "fuzzing":
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8787 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/8787
The alternative is what Firefox does (halfheartedly), which is to try to make users look similar to each other.
It really bothers me that Firefox is so stuck on this approach -- in every other way I prefer Firefox over Brave and I really do not want to switch just for this one feature. But Firefox's halfway implementation of "try to make everybody look similar" is doomed: a serious effort would turn Firefox into TorBrowser-with-javascript-disabled or worse, which is never going to work.
To Firefox's credit, one area where Brave is having problems with this is font fingerprinting, because they don't control their own rendering engine (it's Chromium). So Firefox could "do Brave-style antifingerprinting" better than Brave does, if they got serious about it:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/816 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/816