Security News > 2024 > January > Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites
Brave Software has announced plans to deprecate the 'Strict' fingerprinting protection mode in its privacy-focused Brave Browser because it causes many sites to function incorrectly.
Fingerprinting protection in Brave Browser is a feature designed to enhance user privacy by preventing websites from tracking users through a technique called fingerprinting.
Brave offers two protection modes, namely 'Standard' and 'Strict,' that implement different levels of blocking against known fingerprinting methods.
Brave's 'Standard' fingerprinting protection will continue to exist, enhanced, and optimized for solid protection against tracking, so most users shouldn't experience a notable impact.
"Going forward, we will continue to strengthen and expand Brave's Standard fingerprinting protections so that all our users have ever-improving protection against fingerprinters, while maintaining the highest possible level of compatibility with websites."
The removal of Strict fingerprinting protection has already taken place on the testing 'Nightly' release and will be rolled out to the stable branch with version 1.64 for the desktop and Android.