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I think this website is a good a argument that browsers give way too much data. Luckily brave obfuscates phone model, cpu and so on.


On my case (firefox), it got most of the machine details wrong. It got it right that the window is maximized, but couldn't even get the corners of the display area correctly.


Yup, but on android chrome gives the entire phone model in the user agent, kind of ridiculous.


Does Brave still show the 'Brave' string in the useragent? In the past it did, meaning it was another data point used to fingerprint.


Seems not.

> Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36


Nope, normal chromium user agent. If they did use brave, many websites wouldn't work.




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