alt Hacker Newson what basis do you believe this about fonts? my guess would be that the average user doesn’t install or remove fonts often if ever, but it’s only a guess
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mahboi • yesterday at 4:32 AM
Most people probably have completely default fonts, right? Doesn't seem like much of an identifier anyway
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sejje • yesterday at 4:32 AM
Hmm. I used to have to do that a lot, but I haven't in a few years now.
root_axis • yesterday at 4:59 AM
Perhaps, but that would also mean the cardinality is lower.
I don't actually know how much this happens - software versioning is the biggest one. Chrome updates every two weeks, Microsoft updates once a month, your GPU drivers get updated semi regularly, etc. Any one of those would break the fingerprint.