Recommend Turning off GPU Acceleration in Brave

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When using brave its more secure and private to switch off hardware acceleration because it normally leaks the GPU name.

If you turn it off, you will have the SwiftShader CPU renderer which is likely more common than any unique GPU. Not an exclusive suggestion for Brave, but they already have some fingerprinting resistance built in, so it would complement that.

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Any curators wanna evaluate this?

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I highly doubt this.

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Don’t see how. Your specific model will be more unique.

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Strict is not being maintained anymore

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Thanks for the info! Guess it wasn’t such a good idea after all…

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Mullvad Browser (with its better anti-fingerprinting) also does something similar to this.

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SwiftShader is deprecated in Chromium 139: Chromium Docs - Using Chromium with SwiftShader

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So there will be no option to toggle GPU acceleration?