To summarize, there isn't much to say until more people take Brave seriously as a tool for Tor and independent research is done. However, Mozilla is not completely pure and innocent either and have their share of history when it comes to data privacy. However, Tor Browser has a single purpose and that is anonymity.Īlso the fact that it is using Chromium will give some people pause because they don't trust anything from Google for good reason. We really don't know the security testing practice at Brave. Tor Browser is heavily locked down and does not allow any changed that aren't already planned for a tested. Which one is more or less likely to get you fingerprinted? That's to be determined. Brave makes you look like you are wearing a 'shimmer suit' from A Scanner Darkly. If we think about it, The Tor Project wants everyone to look like a white sheep that is indistinguishable from all other white sheep. I think you're not going to get a lot of good answers because no one has done a study comparing the two in detail and AFAIK that hasn't been done yet. I am not a expert, but I assume that this is a clear technical question and experts should be able to tell the difference of both approaches's impact on user identification. This is about technical facts not opinions. That a user across weeks of different browsing sessions is the same In making it more difficult to track/pinpoint (randomize vs generalize fingerprints) is technically more effective

Question can you please explain: Which of those two methods The randomized end points give you unlinkability across sessions for (for any fingerprinter who consumes a randomized endpoint)' 'We're adding subtle, non-human perceivable noise to the JS readable outputs of the audio, canvas and WebGL APIs. While Brave tries to randomize all fingerprints of each and every user in a unique way (for each new opened session).Ī short quote from Brave to get the context (as you are all Tor experts, I am not quoting Tor). TOR's method to countering fingerprinting is to make as many users 'appear the same' as possible, let us call this to 'generalize'.

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