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Re:The Guardian Is Being Swamped with 'Dark Traffic' by viraptor on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @06:04AM (#8555974)
Do you do anything about plugins sharing your fonts list? I found it to be the least known / most creepy way to identify a big number of users. Unfortunately i don't know of any extensions that would block that information.
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Re:The Guardian Is Being Swamped with 'Dark Traffic' by jacquesm on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @06:23AM (#8556015)
Noscript will do that for you. To access the available fonts list you need to run a bit of js. So blocking javascript will take care of this.
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