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		ikt on Sept 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016) > Look at their customers - https://fingerprint.com/ . Welp that's scary, can detect me when I'm on VPN, off it, in private browsing mode, different country in private browsing mode...

legitster on Sept 17, 2022 | [–]

Try it again with cookies disabled. It looks like they only do the browser fingerprinting if cookies are disabled.

pas on Sept 17, 2022 | [–]

that's nice claim, but for it to work you need to leak enough entropy, and you can check that on various sites.

ikt on Sept 17, 2022 | [–]

there's a little widget on the site that can check that for you

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