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Conceal system fonts from web sites #716

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riastradh-brave opened this issue Aug 9, 2018 · 1 comment
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Conceal system fonts from web sites #716

riastradh-brave opened this issue Aug 9, 2018 · 1 comment
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System fonts are a standard fingerprinting vector. Web sites that need specific fonts can bundle them with the site; otherwise they will look different, and likely bad, on different computers anyway. We should always set the system fonts -- as available for use by name in CSS, and anywhere else they might appear -- to some standard baseline set so that users cannot be distinguished by it.

I would like to do this always, but if there is a compelling reason it has to be limited to when fingerprinting protection is enabled, so be it.

@riastradh-brave riastradh-brave added the feature/shields/fingerprint The fingerprinting (aka: "device recognition") protection provided in Shields label Aug 9, 2018
@bbondy bbondy added this to the Backlog milestone Aug 16, 2018
@tildelowengrimm tildelowengrimm added the priority/P4 Planned work. We expect to get to it "soon". label Nov 7, 2018
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Even though this one came first, I'm duping this into #816 because there's more discussion there.

@tildelowengrimm tildelowengrimm modified the milestones: 1.x Backlog, Dupe / Invalid / Not actionable Jan 23, 2019
@kjozwiak kjozwiak added closed/duplicate Issue has already been reported and removed feature/shields/fingerprint The fingerprinting (aka: "device recognition") protection provided in Shields priority/P4 Planned work. We expect to get to it "soon". labels Feb 6, 2019
@bbondy bbondy removed this from the Dupe / Invalid / Not actionable milestone May 30, 2020
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