XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   mike  wrote:   
      
   > On 21-03-2023 23:38 VanguardLH  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Easier for me to just configure my web browser, Firefox, to resist font   
   >> fingerprinting.   
   >   
   > I have nothing against Firefox and that's a nice feature of Firefox.   
   >   
   > But what good is a solution that only works with one browser?   
   > And which likely breaks the Internet?   
   >   
   > When you can come up with a solution that works with all browsers.   
   > And which does not break the Internet.   
   >   
   > Randomizing fonts works with all web browsers.   
   > And it doesn't break the Internet.   
      
   Unless a developer testing their web site or web app on multiple web   
   browsers to ensure compatibility with all, what's the point of using   
   multiple web browsers?  Do you really bounce between web browsers on   
   your own personal hosts?  Firefox is my primary web browser.   
   Edge-Chromium is a backup.  It is very rare that I am forced away from   
   using my primary web browser.   
      
   Regardless of how you might use a multitude of web browsers, how much   
   have you helped others with problems on their computers?  If you had,   
   you would realize the norm is for users to focus on one web browser.   
      
   But, in the case of actually and actively employing multiple web   
   browsers, and doing so repeatedly, yes, there is an advantage of   
   deploying a solution that is globally effected on all web browser,   
   including all of those you never get around to using yourself as a   
   solution to everyone else using different web browsers than your   
   choices.   
      
   The fonts getting divulged for fingerprinting are those installed on   
   your computer.  Well, you can randomize which fonts you have, or you   
   could pare down all those extra fonts down to the basic set that   
   Windows, or your choice of OS, comes pre-bundled.  You're denying web   
   sites from falling back to your fonts other than some standard set that   
   everyone has and supposedly would reduce your fingerprint (but do users   
   really only have a basic set of fonts that never change?).  What happens   
   to all your other programs installed on your computer?   
      
   You randomize the font set while you are web browsing.  When web   
   browsing, you never ever run any other program?  You never open an   
   editor, word processor, spreadsheet, or load ANY other program while you   
   have the web browser loaded?  Well, randomizing the font set for the web   
   browser means you are doing the same for every other program you may   
   open at the same time.  If concurrently opening multiple programs was   
   not a wanted feature, Windows nor any other OS would have to bother with   
   multi-tasking, running a dispatcher, assigning priority, or all the   
   other functions of a multi-tasking OS.  Running a single program that is   
   always foregrounded with no opportunity to load any other program is not   
   how users use Windows, Linux, or any other OS.  To do so would mean   
   having to cripple the OS back to single-process operation, like DOS.   
      
   Your solution impacts more than just the web browser.   
      
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