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Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

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Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Date Published: 2024-01-21

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Bill Toulas

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Brave Software announced it will deprecate the 'Strict' fingerprinting protection mode in Brave Browser due to significant site breakage and minimal usage (~0.5%), shifting resources to strengthen the already extensive 'Standard' protections; the change is live in Nightly and will roll out to stable in version 1.64 (current v1.61), directly affecting an estimated 330,000 of 65.5 million monthly users.

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