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Brave browser randomizes default installed language and fonts to resist that sort of fingerprinting.

Just a shill for Brave.

*Edit: well, I didn't know randomization or the plain use of Brave itself is a useful fingerprint point.

Unfortunately, if a site can detect that a visitor is using Brave, that is a very useful datapoint for fingerprinting.

navigator.brave.isBrave()

Right. I'm saying that, on the only site I run where I look at this kind of thing, when I review the stats, "uses Brave" puts a visitor into a pool of 2 people. Preventing me from enumerating their fonts is a valiant effort, though.

Wait doesn't randomizing make one more easily fingerprinted? Unless every check returns different results. And even that behavior could be a strong signal to distinguish Brave from other browsers.

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