macOS - Aggressive fingerprinting blocking breaks Google Maps zoom animation

[arvin-z]

Description

When "Aggressively block fingerprinting" is enabled on https://www.google.com/maps, zooming in/out using the scroll wheel or trackpad becomes choppy.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to https://www.google.com/maps
2. Make sure "Aggressively block fingerprinting" is enabled for the site
3. Try zooming in/out using the scroll wheel or trackpad gesture

Actual result:

Zooming the map in/out is choppy

Expected result:

Zooming in/out should have a smooth animation. This is the behaviour when Fingerprint blocking is set to normal or disabled.

Reproduces how often:

Always reproduced when "Aggressively block fingerprinting" is enabled (might depend on OS and version)

Brave version (brave://version info)

1.49.118 Chromium: 111.0.5563.50 (Official Build) (x86_64)

OS: macOS Version 13.2.1 (Build 22D68)

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Have not checked
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Have not checked

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? Yes
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? No
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? No

Miscellaneous Information:

[rebron]

Thanks for the report. We'll be marking this as wontfix to be solved in a different issue. We're updating the settings so you and others don't run into issues like this.

[sd3412]

What is the solution?

[arvin-z]

The temporary solution would be to open the Brave Shields menu while you're in Maps, expand "Advanced controls", and change "Aggressively block fingerprinting" to "Block fingerprinting".

[sd3412]

None of the fingerprinting options do anything. Zooming is still a jittery mess.

[fungaldore]

Adding my findings since this issue is still open: Strict fingerprinting blocking also seems to break google docs and google sheets. It's fixed when I put the setting back to "Standard". Version 1.52.117 Chromium: 114.0.5735.90 (m2 chip).