Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Brave improves protections against GPU fingerprinting

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Brave improves protections against GPU fingerprinting

Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

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Brave improves protections against GPU fingerprinting | Brave

Starting in version 1.93, Brave is rolling out new protections against GPU and graphics-driver fingerprinting, de-identifying WebGL vendor and renderer strings and adding noise to the list of supported extensions.

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Not really something new… Firefox already does this under its built-in strict enhanced tracking protection.

Manually setting it on firefox:

about: config privacy.resistFingerprinting true

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