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No longer able to choose between different modes of fingerprinting resistance.

Open LiamPerson opened this issue 9 months ago • 0 comments

Description

In the Brave browser the options for fingerprinting resistance are no longer available. image

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Brave browser
  2. Navigate to any website
  3. Open the Brave shield in the top right of the address bar
  4. Open the 'Advanced controls'
  5. Observe that 'Block fingerprinting' is now a toggle instead of an option select.

Actual result:

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Expected result:

Expecting to see options to change the level of protection available.

Reproduces how often:

Always reproduceable.

Brave version (brave://version info)

1.65.126 Chromium: 124.0.6367.118 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Version/Channel Information:

  • Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Not tried
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Not tried

Other Additional Information:

  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? Not relevant
  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? Not relevant
  • Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? Not applicable

Miscellaneous Information:

I have checked through the changelogs and cannot find any change listed that would suggest this is intentional. Was this a mistake/bug or a change to how Brave will behave moving forward?

LiamPerson avatar May 08 '24 02:05 LiamPerson