This will have no effect on websites built with bundlers because the site-specific code will be in the same file, making it unique. But he probably still catches a few.
Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
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Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#42"Blocking Web Fonts for Speed" but how do you install uBlock origin in mobile chrome?
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#43This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
Screw designers. They have ruined so many things over the years. It's time to take back control.
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#44"Blocking Web Fonts for Speed" but how do you install uBlock origin in mobile chrome?
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#45"Blocking Web Fonts for Speed" but how do you install uBlock origin in mobile chrome?
You use mobile Firefox
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#46Mirror: https://archive.ph/RxqoH (site seems to be chugging already)
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Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#47This is a very shortsighted view from developer who forget a web page is not only a bunch of text. Designer also play an important role to provide the subtle design element that developers don't value. By blocking all web fonts and fallback to only system font, you may still be able to read the text, but will completely missed the design.
What if the design is bad?
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#48One thing I don’t see mentioned here is the possibility of additional profiling by disabling web fonts. Doesn’t this make you more more unique as a user since very few people disable web fonts? I suppose you could argue that many users can be uniquely identified either way but it’s no doubt a strong additional piece of info.
The best middle-ground would be to spoof the most common set of fonts (probably Windows X default fonts?) as that would surely increase the number of probablistic matches over custom fonts / no fonts I can't imagine a large percentage of users (probably no browsers) completely disable web fonts and web font fingerprinting.
Is it possible to spoof information like that in a browser without reprecussions though? I don't think I've seen any extensions to spoof things like this, just settings to block the gathering of data in the first place.
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#49In a similar vein, LocalCDN is an extension to serve the most common javascript libraries from your browser instead of going to 3rd party servers, while there are edge cases when you use a local copy, I've rarely had an issue. https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN/ Removes integrity and crossorigin tags from embedded script and style elements to replace even more frameworks Font Awesome Google Material Icons jQuery Bo…
first time I've seen codeberg is this the github/gitlab alternative?
Re: Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
#50"Blocking Web Fonts for Speed" but how do you install uBlock origin in mobile chrome?
Two steps: 1) install Firefox mobile and 2) install uBlock Origin. Optional: 3) uninstall Chrome. :)