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Fingerprinting resistance

Methods used to resist fingerprinting, including font and language normalization, user-agent and OS spoofing, and screen-size bucketing

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Jan 29, 2026
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What specific fingerprinting protections does Tor Browser implement that Brave’s Tor window omits?

purposefully implements a suite of aggressive, deterministic anti‑ measures — font and language normalization, user‑agent and OS spoofing, screen‑size “bucketing” with letterboxing, and active‑vector ...

Jan 27, 2026

Which browser features (e.g., WebGL, WebGPU, NPAPI/PPAPI) are most commonly disabled by privacy-hardened forks, and what compatibility trade-offs result?

most consistently remove or disable telemetry, cross‑site data sharing and third‑party tracking, and they restrict or disable extensions and bundled services to reduce fingerprinting; reporting links ...