Many misunderstand screen size fingerprinting.
They assume that when a website fingerprints their browser, that it merely gets the display 'category', such as '1200x800'. But in reality, it gets your unique size down to the pixel, such as 1202x799. Each window will fill the display slightly differently, which absolutely can (and is) tracked across services.
In 2024 with version 1.64, Brave completely deprecated screen size fingerprinting, because it so frequently broke websites. Which is exactly what I'm screaming about, that modern web browsers force you to pick between privacy and functionality.
Tor Browser attempts to hide unique screen sizes by blocking and restricting Javascript, which causes services such as Google, Reddit, and Cloudflare to haze you.
That's why I'm excited about HydraVeil's feature to instantly create a new display, that realistically looks to websites like the browser window is your computer's full screen dimensions. Here we can see deviceinfo-me compare Tor Browser to HydraVeil's profiles, and it does not percieve it to be spoofed.
But many HydraVeil users have complained that they don't want to deal with smaller windows. And that's why I'm excited about our new update today.
We are proud to present a new 'dynamic mode' for quick profile creation, which when enabled, presents many screen size options that are only slightly smaller than your host, in 50 dimension increments. This allows the user to effortlessly and conveniently get profiles that comfortably fill up their host’s display window, but each one is slightly different to fingerprinters.
Learn more from our release notes:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/dynamic-larger-profiles/and-changed-locations/v2-2-5.html
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