Re:Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey
by benplumley on Monday May 06, 2019 @09:47AM
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Apparently one in 900 browsers has my list of system fonts, by far the most identifying thing Panopticlick could detect. However, the font list looked completely vanilla to me. I wonder if there's a telltale one in there that I installed manually.
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Are they in alphabetical order? The order of installed fonts used to be a dominant attribute in browser fingerprinting, before some browsers took steps to normalize it.
Other than that, things like presence/absence of common variants like bold, and possibly some common fonts come packaged with office software rather than the OS.