It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say researchers

Re:It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say resear... by mercer on Monday July 31, 2017 @12:09PM (#14893186)

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?

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Re:It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say resear... by theEXTORTCIST on Monday July 31, 2017 @06:54PM (#14896576)

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

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Re:It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say resear... by Chaebixi on Monday July 31, 2017 @04:08PM (#14895462)

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

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Re:It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say resear... by voltagex_ on Monday July 31, 2017 @06:27PM (#14896426)

Firefox in the Tor Browser Bundle does some of this

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