Privacy Updates

ARCHIVED 2022-01-10, DATE APPROXIMATE · VERSION 20220110_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20211204_rev01

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1## [GrabBag 3: Fixing PoolParty, Improving Fingerprinting Protections, More Debouncing, and Less Chromium](https://brave.com/privacy-updates/15-grab-bag-3/)
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3Post #15 | Jan 7, 2022
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5Brave continues to ship the most aggressive and broad privacy protections available in any popular browser. Starting in Brave 1.35, Brave includes protections against all known practical forms of "pool-party" attacks.
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7## [Partitioning Network-State for Privacy](https://brave.com/privacy-updates/14-partitioning-network-state/)
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9Post #14 | Dec 22, 2021
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11Brave now includes network-state partitioning features, protecting Brave users from an even greater range of online tracking techniques.
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13## [Preventing Pool-Party Attacks](https://brave.com/privacy-updates/13-pool-party-side-channels/)
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15Post #13 | Dec 15, 2021
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17Brave has identified a new category of tracking vulnerability, forms of which are present in all browsers. We call this category of attack "pool-party" attacks because the attack uses collections (or "pools") of limited-but-shared resources to create side channels.
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119## [Brave and UC San Diego Announce SugarCoat, A New Solution to Strengthen the Protection of Web Users' Privacy While Not Breaking Websites](https://brave.com/privacy-updates/12-sugarcoat/)
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321Post #12 | Nov 18, 2021
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523Brave is pleased to announce SugarCoat, the result of a year-long research collaboration with University of California San Diego to create a new system to improve Web privacy without sacrificing compatibility at Web scale.
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