Panopticlick reports Brave as susceptible to Fingerprinting

[jonathansampson]

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Describe the issue you encountered:
Panopticlick reports Brave as being susceptible to fingerprinting, even if fingerprinting protection turned on.

Expected behavior:
Brave is not fingerprintable (or not fingerprinting to a meaningful degree)

Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?): All

Brave Version: 0.12.10

#242 #1354 #2229 #2259

[luixxiul]

CC @diracdeltas

[privatzee]

I believe that everybody using Brave has the same spoofed hash, so that's a kind of herd anonymity. Here is me, tested just now:

It would also be nice if reported screen size was set to browser window size. Hopefully that will be available once we can add browser extensions.

(The associated bits of identifying information column should presumably decline as more Brave users go to Panopticlick.)

[diracdeltas]

everyone should have the same canvas hash

panopticlick is based on the number of users who visit EFF's site, so it's definitely skewed. if you visit the site over and over again in new incognito tabs, it no longer says you're fingerprintable.

[pmo]

I just noticed the canvas fingerprinting and wondered why mine was that unique, kinda solved when I saw this post, we all have the same fingerprint hehe.