Browsers are closing the fingerprint. This never opened it.

What Brave actually changed.

From version 1.93, Brave replaces the WebGL vendor and renderer strings with a single generic value, so every Brave user reports the same one. It empties the WebGPU adapter descriptors, and injects noise into the list of supported WebGL extensions so that a fingerprinter hashing that list gets a different answer each time.

On by default, on desktop and on Android.

Source: Brave, improving protections against GPU fingerprinting

This is not one release. It is a direction, and it only goes one way: every year there is less about a device that a page is allowed to read. Anything built on top of that surface gets quietly worse, and the first time you find out is when your block rate moves.

What this snippet never reads.

Not a promise about intent. A list you can check yourself, in the browser, in under a minute.

There is nothing here for Brave to de-identify, because none of it is read in the first place. The protections that landed this month change nothing about how this works, which is the entire point of the page.

What it reads instead.

How the session behaves over time, scored on the server. Behavior is not an attribute of a device: there is no vendor string to blank out, no adapter to empty, no list to add noise to. A browser hardening its privacy does not narrow it.

Every field the snippet sends is named in the API reference. Which of them carry weight, and how they are combined, is the one thing kept private, and the reasoning for that is its own page.

The part a vendor page would leave out.

Brave closing the GPU fingerprint does not make this better at catching bots. It makes the device-based approaches worse. Those are different sentences and only the second one is about Brave.

Reading behavior has its own limits, and they are written down rather than buried: what it misses, where the signal does not exist, and the cases where the honest recommendation is a competitor. That page is linked from the pricing page on purpose, so you read it before you pay rather than after.