Web browser Brave is randomizing its “fingerprint” each time a user visits a site, ZDNet reports. Brave developers said this approach “aims to make every browser look completely unique, both between websites and between browsing sessions” so “websites are unable to link your browsing behavior, and are thus unable to track you on the web.”
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