browser fingerprinting

Brave is rolling out a new layer of fingerprinting protection in Brave 1.93 that changes what websites can learn about a Windows PC’s graphics hardware. The desktop browser now substitutes generic WebGL GPU vendor and renderer values, clears WebGPU adapter descriptors, and randomizes the WebGL...

Microsoft Threat Intelligence says a macOS ClickFix operation has changed the part defenders most often rely on: the malicious landing page no longer reliably looks malicious. More than 250 front-end domains in the cluster now use server-side browser fingerprinting to reserve their fake...

When a Bloomberg story or any major news site returns the terse instruction “Please make sure your browser supports JavaScript and cookies…” instead of the article you expected, that short line is doing far more work than it appears to be doing: it’s the visible tip of a multilayered defensive...