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I unfortunately can't really see how a browser could still be nice to use and properly resist fingerprinting.
The site https://amiunique.org/fingerprint tries to fingerprint your browser and lists the used attributes along with their uniqueness within their dataset. And while a browser could pretty reliably lie about its User Agent or Platform, it's often just necessary for a modern website to know, for example, what your view-port's resolution is or what kind of audio/video codecs your device supports. Going through my own results, I'd say combining these necessary data points is probably enough to identify me, even though I'm pretty privacy-conscious.
Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but I think preventing fingerprinting would need a regulatory instead of a technical solution. Unfortunately that doesn't seem very likely anytime soon.
Browser?
Lol they own Android...it's the entire os. They're fingerprinting every android phone.
No, AOSP is FOSS. They dont own it. By default it doesn't install any google blobs.
Always reinstall your OS when you buy a new device.