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0 pointsridgered43y ago0 comments

I often see the narrative on here that consumer VPN providers are almost useless for privacy due to other fingerprinting methods, which I've never really bought.

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tejohnso3y ago

I just tested at fingerprint.com using mullvad.

Brave browser, no VPN, they recorded one visit, one IP.

Brave browser, no VPN, incognito, they recorded two visits, one IP.

Brave browser, with VPN, incognito, recorded three visits, two IPs.

I'm pretty impressed / surprised. A fresh incognito session, through a VPN, still matched the same fingerprint. Especially surprising since TFA indicates Brave randomizes the fingerprint. I even changed my fingerprint block setting to "strict, may break sites" and it's still recording the same visitor ID from Brave, even with incognito.

figglestar3y ago

Just tried this with VPN + firefox resist fingerprinting. I cleared cookies and session data and reloaded, it recorded 1 visit 1 ip for the first (obviously) and second tries. I did not change my VPN connection between attempts.

Based on this test I'm surprised Brave's fingerprint resister did not work for you. But on firefox the enhanced privacy protection (strict) and the resistfingerprinting option are two different knobs.

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