Security News > 2020 > March > Brave browser to block web fingerprinting with randomisation
It sounds almost impossible to stop, but not according to the makers of the Brave browser, which is using its latest developer build to test a new defence against fingerprinting: confusing fingerprinting collection algorithms by randomising some of the data they collect.
Although fingerprinting has a lot of possible APIs and network IDs to utilise, Brave's concept is that it is only necessary to disrupt a few to confuse surveillance.
The company offers a demo site which users can visit to see how their fingerprint value remains constant between visits, even when browser data and cookies are deleted, or when using incognito mode.
The interesting aspect of Brave's anti-fingerprinting is that the company seems determined to compete head-on with Mozilla's Firefox, which from version 72 has blocked fingerprinting by blocking third-party requests from companies known to use the technique.
After the slow-motion emergence of cookie control, it looks as if browser makers might finally be about to get serious about tackling fingerprinting.