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Have you ever wished to be ignorant? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I use ProtonMail, and I was thinking, "Damn, it's spectacular not being tracked... but hold on a minute. Perhaps less than gmail, but still at all. And what about browser fingerprinting, and cookies, and even fonts!" I ended up in that feedback loop we all end up in. Perhaps ignorance is bliss? What is something you (might) wish you were ignorant of?

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[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Not an answer to your question, but...

are you saying I need to be worried about fonts spying on me now? Like typeface?

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 days ago

They used to use your list of installed fonts as one of the data types to figure out who you are.

I'm not sure if that's still a thing, how many people download new fonts now, but it was an important part of fingerprinting at one point.

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

One of the ways of fingerprinting that they use is to determine what fonts you have loaded onto your browser and it’s surprisingly effective. I think before I changed mine to all default my fonts were unique to like 1:10000 people which once you factor in other fingerprinting techniques can make you pretty obvious

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

are you saying I need to be worried

you're probably fine

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What others said. Additionally Google offers free fonts to embed in websites that allow Google to know when you visit any site that uses one.