It seems as though this has been inadequately addressed by the moderators, or other users. An example can be nobody noticing the OP saying Brave is based on Chrome.
Still, I do appreciate how the OP compiled this conclusion, but there are many misunderstandings and inaccuracies. Yet, due to little clarification, this discussion has been “dragged on” significantly.
Relating to Brave being Chrome-based, it is not at all. (1, 2)
What is there to learn from this? Well…
this website is referring to EFF’s test which is fair but fingerprint.com does certainly do better than this because ot doesn’t verify just if you randomized your fingerprint value or something to declare,m you’re resistant, they use many many data points beyond your fingerprint browser that gives:
see: Fingerprint Use Cases | Smart Signals Playground
on the data points it uses to identify the visitor
and to read more here: Introduction
Thanks for responding, but it is referring to all fingerprinting websites, if you read it carefully. Simply, it used CoverYourTracks as an example and is not just referring to CoverYourTracks alone.
A few considerations from this thread:
Thanks for pointing this out! Yes, I know.
I should’ve made clear that I don’t recommend outright modifying Mullvad Browser’s uBlock configs to “improve privacy”. Default is fine.
I was referring to a specific test on fingerprint.com, that in my machine could be bypassed when I did activate hard mode on uBlock.
If Mullvad doesn’t recommend you to change it, don’t change it!
In one of my replies to this thread, I slipped and said something amongst the lines of: “…Brave feels like home for Chrome users, because Brave is based on Chrome”.
As @Astatine pointed out, that’s not correct.
Brave is based on Chromium. I made a mistype.
Anyway, I meant it in a UI/UX way, not in a “Google has infested Brave!” kind of way.
Yeah. Fingerprint.com and many other fingerprint-testing websites don’t represent reality that well.
They’re either far too optimistic or pessimistic on their approach.
But some sites, like browserleaks, do reveal some functionalities of your browser. For example, if a website is capable to see your GPU model or not.
With a clearer mind, and after all this debate, I do think that:
But:
I wouldn’t recommend Tor Browser for day to day, finances, streaming and account access stuff.
But if you do want to anonymize your “general” traffic that doesn’t depend on logins tied to you, Tor Browser might be a good choice (even improving your security with virtualization, like Whonix).
You’re not considering that this, in itself, is fingerprintable. You would be one of the only Mullvad Browser users with a changing fingerprint. It is not a bad thing for fingerprint.com to show you the same fingerprint each time on MB because you are sharing that same exact fingerprint with thousands of other users, which defeats the point of sites conducting fingerprinting.
About Fingerprinting.com and other tracking companies, it is good to keep in mind how they work.
They use uses state tracking (cookies, etc.) and IP and fingeprinting to re-identify users.
This is easy to fool on the surface, just e.g. resize your window before going back with a sanitized browser and new IP- but fooling is surface only.
Data collected can be weighted on the backend to re-identify a user.
Beating fingerprinting.com, because we have managed to fool it on the surface - is probably fooling ourselves in a false sense of privacy.
I got it. I found this alongside browserleaks.com Actually be great to figure out your fingerprinting of your browser so yeah. After checking out as much as I could but yeah this is nice.