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Surprised the website didn't list installed fonts anywhere. Fonts, alongside with other device details, can be a great way to fingerprint a browser/user. Edit:
by freditup 11y ago
Surprised the website didn't list installed fonts anywhere. Fonts, alongside with other device details, can be a great way to fingerprint a browser/user.
Edit: Actually, I believe you need Flash or a Java applet to actually get a list of fonts installed. But you can do other, slow, iterative approaches via JS.
- burkemw3 11y agoWith panopticlick, I consider lots of things very able to fingerprint users. I like that this site says it knows things about you without a previous visit. A site doesn't need to have seen you before and track you all over the web. A site can infer things from what is sent the very first time. Of course, this isn't the first site to remind of us of that, but the reminders are still good, and interesting to learn about!