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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months ago

A web page that shows you everything the browser told it

sinceyouarrived.world

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A web page that shows you everything the browser told it

sinceyouarrived.world

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months ago
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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.
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    why would my browser share a list of fonts?

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      so the site knows what it can render

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        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.

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          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

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      Further, why are the fonts unique? Why doesn’t every phone of the same model with the same languages have the same fonts enabled?

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