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Re:Tor at the Heart: Firefox by eslaught on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @03:47PM (#13312936)
But user agents already identify the browser, right?

I agree that implementing this first in Tor is probably not a good idea, but if Firefox were to do it first, then I don't see the problem. "They're a Firefox user" isn't nearly as specific information.

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Re:Tor at the Heart: Firefox by dexterdog on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @05:15PM (#13313661)
User agent gives the browser version and platform version. Two macs with the same OS version and the latest version of Chrome will have the same user agent.
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Re:Tor at the Heart: Firefox by nsgi on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @05:32PM (#13313817)
That's the point. With this feature, two computers with the latest version of Firefox would have the same font list.
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Re:Tor at the Heart: Firefox by dexterdog on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:10AM (#13318367)
Is that true? I thought the point of using the font list for fingerprinting is that it can vary widely from user to user.
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