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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We are just rocks tumbling down a cliff side.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 11 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 11 months ago

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