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> No, this is bad because it provides additional signal for fingerprinting.

Not really. The fonts selected by these font-family values should, at most, be dependent on the OS and language of the host system -- which are already easy to detect.



OS should not be detectable. There is no need for a marketing agency to know what OS you are using.


The User-Agent string already has your OS in it. Or have you customized your browser to randomize that as well?


That is easily changed via settings and I hope that browser developers will "freeze" it in future so that it always reports Windows 10 (which was promised to be the final version of Windows).




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