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by mattmein 2333 days ago
What does it mean that I have a unique user agent? I just use normal brave browser.
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I hope it is a joke (pretty good one if it is), but on an off-chance it is not: it is entirely plausible that you are the first Brave browser user to visit the site (or at least Brave of that version).
Not a joke, panopticlick by eff does this too and explains how it works.
Are you sure you're looking only the "User Agent"? The text at the top is describing your entire "browser fingerprint." It includes everything the server could gather from you. Including cookies, browser version, width/height of the window, etc.

In case it's not clear, uniqueness should be seen as bad in this case. It means you can be tracked.

I'm also getting unique useragent with Brave.
I'm using Brave and my useragent is not unique.

Version 1.2.43 Chromium: 79.0.3945.130 (Official Build) (64-bit)

No idea what it means, but I am also curious. I literally just installed Brave on IOS before checking it out, so I tried it on IOS Chrome and the fingerprint was still unique.

I think it might just mean that we leak waaaay more data than most of us realize...

Most likely that it isn't very common. Mine said <0.01% for the Brave user-agent.
Firefox developer edition / windows ranks at 0.02% :)
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0" (mainline Firefox) is apparently 0.02% as well.
My user agent also says 0.16% similarity and I’m just using safari on an iphone. How can that be?
There's more than one iPhone, more than one IOS version and more than one version of safari. Multiply the odds of someone having your exact setup AND browsing this site.
I get just 0,31% similarity rating with the latest Firefox.