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		sparkie on Dec 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and... One of the most effective methods of fingerprinting people is to enumerate the fonts they have installed on their machines (via flash). You don't even need the browser version number to uniquely identify most - the only solution is to disable flash.

d_j_s on Dec 12, 2012 | [–]

As chrome sandboxes flash, I wonder how much hassle it would be to only allow a small subset of fonts through?

lucian1900 on Dec 12, 2012 | [–]

Most browsers have "run plugins on click" options, very useful in general.

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