Blocking Web Fonts for Speed and Privacy

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  • fingerprintjs

    Browser fingerprinting library. Accuracy of this version is 40-60%, accuracy of the commercial Fingerprint Identification is 99.5%. V4 of this library is BSL licensed.

  • > There's a difference between something being provent theoretically possible in a laboratory environment and actually making it out in the real world.

    Fingerprinting using IP address, running scripts, canvas fingerprinting, using installed fonts, and checking what resources are cached/blocked are all things that are being widely used in many websites, and are not just "theoretically possible".

    They are even being sold as a product and are used by many companies.

    Look at their customers - https://fingerprint.com/ .

  • user.js

    Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening

  • This, it's also why it's in the category of "don't bother" https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-don... not only that it will make your browser easier to fingerprint as one of the Tor developers pointed out.

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