Brave browser is shipping a new, powerful privacy-protecting feature called “Unlinkable Bouncing”. This feature protects your privacy by noticing when you’re about to visit a privacy harming (or otherwise suspect) Website, & instead routes that visit through a new, temporary browser storage.
This prevents the Site from identifying you by tying your footprint to that of previous visits, but allows the Site to otherwise function as normal. Essentially, each visit appears as a unique, 1st-time visit, thus anonymizing your digital fingerprint. This temporary storage is then deleted when you browse away from the suspect site, preventing the site from re-identifying you on future visits.
Brave says it currently uses Unlinkable Bouncing as an additional protection against bounce tracking, alongside Brave’s existing query parameter stripping, debouncing, & bounce-tracking interstitial features. The feature is enabled in Brave Nightly, and will be in Brave’s full release on version 1.37. Unlinkable Bouncing is the 1st use of a broader capability Brave is developing called “first-party ephemeral storage.”
To know more about Unlinkable Bouncing, click here.
