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Fonts strike me as particular low-hanging fruit, especially when targeting developers (who often like to customize everything - and fonts high on the list).

In the context of a browser, how much does anything else matter if you have installed some particular programming font?



Pretty interesting how many bits of identifying information are available based on system fonts.

if you've never seen EFF's Panopticlick check out https://panopticlick.eff.org


There should be a browser that explicitly attempts to present the blandest, most common profile to websites to foil tracking.


Firefox in the Tor Browser Bundle does some of this




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