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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
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This is how I KNOW it works as intended (i.imgur.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm afraid that protection might not last long.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/brave-to-end-strict-fingerprinting-protection-as-it-breaks-websites/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We are just rocks tumbling down a cliff side.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

An interesting note-

Another issue is that Strict mode is used by roughly 0.5% of Brave's users, with the rest using the default setting, which is the Standard mode.

This low percentage actually makes these users more vulnerable to fingerprinting despite them using the more aggressive blocker, because they constitute a discernible subset of users standing out from the rest.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's what I've always said, you got no out, if youre a big black blob on the map, the connections show exactly who you are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Fingerprinting is tricky, you have to be as big standard as possible. Ironically privacy plugins make you more identifiable sometimes