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Have you ever wished to be ignorant?
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Not an answer to your question, but...
are you saying I need to be worried about fonts spying on me now? Like typeface?
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.
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.
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
you're probably fine