Fingerprinting FAQ

[dngray]

Description

URL of affected page: https://github.com/orgs/privacyguides/discussions/7

This thread revealed some great answers from @Thorin-Oakenpants breaking down fingerprinting and how it relates to user privacy.

As the OP of the discussion said, there are many sources on the internet, and a lot of them are very basic and full of misinformation whilst worrying users with specific metrics.

I think we could work on making this into a proper FAQ on the main website, that way potentially it could be translated in the future.

[ph00lt0]

Also related: https://discuss.privacyguides.org/t/brave-leaking-timezone/253/4?u=ph00lt0

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

unsubscribing, please don't @ me .. if needed the polar bear knows where to find me

• click -> https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/1797#discussioncomment-3721789

WTF is this - https://discuss.privacyguides.org/t/brave-leaking-timezone/253

Brave does NOT LEAK timezone - you can't leak something if you're not protecting it. It is simply one metric that Brave has not covered, YET. - and it makes zero difference. The best Brave and FF can do is fool naive scripts (and what about your IP). Brave already covers high entropy items such as canvas, webgl, fonts, audio (surprisingly a lot of chromium results here), user agent. Timezone is not going to make a stick of difference IMO (except as a larger overall package to cover loads of stuff to make it really Fing hard for scripts)

READ THE RULES: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/3.3-Overrides-[To-RFP-or-Not]#-fingerprinting - I cannot make it any simpler

[privacyguides-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Privacy Guides. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.privacyguides.org/t/brave-leaking-timezone/253/6

[privacyguides-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Privacy Guides. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/having-a-battle-with-reddits-fingerprinting-schemes/11576/9

[privacyguides-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Privacy Guides. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/browser-fingerprinting-tracking-overview/12250/3

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

^ that last message self-destructed 15 secs after jonah read it

[jonaharagon]

I guess I will just have to wait and find out what that cryptic message means (and if it is related to this) lol

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

it has nothing to do with that paper from 2019

[privacyguides-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Privacy Guides. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/brave-fingerprinting-measures/17813/2

[privacyguides-bot]

This issue has been mentioned on Privacy Guides Community. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/time-zone-in-brave-vs-hardened-ff-browsers-bookmark/20825/1