PrivacyEnglish · 10 months ago

Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

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Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

www.bleepingcomputer.com

PrivacyEnglish · 10 months ago

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Brave Software has announced plans to deprecate the 'Strict' fingerprinting protection mode in its privacy-focused Brave Browser because it causes many sites to function incorrectly.

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Firefox’s resist fingerprinting breaks sites too.
- Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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  It doesn’t really break things for me personally. However if it does break something just turn it off.
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