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minus-squarechasteinsect@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 hours agoI remember thinking how strange it is that websites can know all of your installed fonts when I was playing around with https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and https://www.amiunique.org/ I’m on linux and I have some extra fonts installed. Just the combination of them alone is so unique to me that you don’t need anything else.
minus-squareggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 hours agoThe second big one for me is how shocking I find it that timezone spoofing isn’t standard, now that so many people use VPNs. Why would someone connecting from Sweden have their clock set to GMT? Etc
I remember thinking how strange it is that websites can know all of your installed fonts when I was playing around with https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and https://www.amiunique.org/
I’m on linux and I have some extra fonts installed. Just the combination of them alone is so unique to me that you don’t need anything else.
The second big one for me is how shocking I find it that timezone spoofing isn’t standard, now that so many people use VPNs. Why would someone connecting from Sweden have their clock set to GMT? Etc