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Privacy-Preserving Attribution: Testing for a New Era of Privacy in Digital Advertising
(blog.mozilla.org)
A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox
Brave randomizes the output of fingerprinting techniques like canvas rendering, system fonts, installed devices, etc in a way that makes you look like a real, consistent user providing real data that still allows the site to work, while still changing the output from one session to the next enough that sites can't tell you're the same person.
Firefox claims to block all this but if you check their site they explain how it actually works:
This does nothing to actually disguise you. It's the equivalent of putting a paper bag over your head when you think there's a security camera. You stand out because of the bag and you don't know where all the cameras are so you're still being tracked when you don't know it.
I hate the idea of Brave because Chromium's dominance will ruin the web but Firefox does not protect us.