Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts] incorporate mitigations for font based fingerprinting (#4055)

> Agreeing to solve [passive fingerprinting] needs to be a wide consensus, not a bunch of ad hoc and inconsistent decisions made in different working groups to different standards.

David, I think I have the opposite expectations about what approach we should take. I believe that the only practical way to address passive fingerprinting is standard-by-standard and implementation-by-implementation doing the in-the-weeds work to ensure that passive fingerprinting surface isn't exposed.

But I definitely agree with you about the need for broad consensus. Good news, though: that one's already taken care of! People almost-universally agree that they don't want to be silently tracked across the web. It's not just consensus, it's basically unanimous. Now it's our job to implement that for everyone.


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