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I'm not sure why they would. This information seems extremely relevant to Google's line of business.

• stanleydrew 16y ago
  As far as I know Google tracks with cookies in the standard way. I would be pretty shocked if they were tracking based on anything like fonts or plugins. Is there already evidence to the contrary though?
  • thechangelog 16y ago
    While I'm not aware of anything it certainly stands to reason that they would, especially with their DoubleClick network. If the EFF with their limited resources figured this out, Google likely would have, too.
    • jrockway 16y ago
      Google and Doubleclick just give you a cookie, though. They don't need to be nefarious.
• tbeseda 16y ago
  Google could not feasibly track their user-base this way. The load time for a Flash application that returns font lists (though short) is much longer than they, or their users would tolerate.
  • eli 16y ago
    Not to mention totally unnecessary. Most people are just fine with cookies.