To fight cookie-based tracking, privacy-focused tools like Brave place tight restrictions on what sites can place cookies on your browser, and thus limit which sites can identify you. Historically, online tracking used cookies, identifiers intended to be used for Web authentication, but have since been hijacked by advertisers and trackers to follow you on the Web. Tracking on the Web is moving from cookie-based to fingerprinting-based, and most Web browsers do not have useful defenses against browser fingerprinting. Problem: Trackers Use “Browser Fingerprints” To Follow You As trackers switch from traditional cookie based tracking to fingerprinting, having practical and effective fingerprinting protections will be an increasingly important way to maintaining a user serving, privacy-respecting Web.
These new protections both provide the strongest fingerprinting protections of any popular browser, and work without introducing bothersome permission prompts or breaking websites.īrave’s approach differs from existing fingerprinting protection tools by randomizing fingerprintable values in ways that are imperceptible to humans, but which confuse fingerprints. Brave is releasing a new form of browser fingerprinting protection, available today in our Nightly version.
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