A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
I don’t anything about web development, so I assumed websites told browsers: ‘Hey type this text in X font.’ If the machine didn’t have that font the browser would fall back to another font.
why would my browser share a list of fonts?
so the site knows what it can render
I don’t anything about web development, so I assumed websites told browsers: ‘Hey type this text in X font.’ If the machine didn’t have that font the browser would fall back to another font.
that would be a sensible way to do it, but turns out the browser leaks a lot of this information to the site because reasons
Further, why are the fonts unique? Why doesn’t every phone of the same model with the same languages have the same fonts enabled?