What is the most common Screen Size and Color Depth (forpanopticlick)

In article , Sage wrote:

Your Name wrote, on Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:40:00 +1300:

Besides which, unless you're creating and installing your own custom
fonts, there is no way that can "fingerprint" you individually, even if
anyone was stupid enough to bother trying to get such a list.

Huh? It's *easy* to be unique.
That's the whole problem.

So, for example, let's say you log into "google" mail as "user1".
Then, when you travel to China, you log in as "user2".
You then travel to Germany and you log in as "user3".

You've had three different IP addresses, and three different
accounts, yet, since your browser was fingerprinted when you were
at home using "user0", all four accounts are one and the same person.

What do you mean they can't fingerprint you "individually"?
That's the whole point of fingerprinting.

It's *easy* to fingerprint you "individually".
Just go look at your results in Panopticlick.
Mine are unique.

Another looney conspiracy nutter joins the killfile.

The tin-foil hat store is around the corner. :-\

On 2015-01-27, Sage wrote:
nospam wrote, on Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:41:05 -0500:

whatever comes with a stock install is that set.

But how do we find and DELETE the non-stock fonts, after
the fact, without having to resort to re-installing the
OS and all that entails?

*sigh*

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mac+os+x+default+fonts&l=1

Removing fonts in Mac OS X is as simple as running FontBook and using
the Delete key on your keyboard.

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In article , Sage wrote:

the only way to fingerprint you is if you have a *unique* set of fonts
which nobody else has, something which is highly unlikely given your
ignorance of typography and design.

My panopticlick result is unique.

no doubt it is unique, but who cares. just what do you think someone is
going to do knowing that?

The combination of factors makes it so.
Part of that, is the screen size (as the color depth is 24, like most others).
Another part are the fonts installed.

there are a lot of things someone can look at. fonts are but one.

The only goal is to look like everyone else.

not possible.

That takes a better undertanding of how to modify the reported screen size
than I have, and it takes a better understanding of how to look like I only
have the default fonts.

it doesn't matter if you do or don't. nobody is going to hunt you down.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs this help.

i don't know about the only one, but you sure do need help.

In article , Sage wrote:


whatever comes with a stock install is that set.

But how do we find and DELETE the non-stock fonts, after
the fact, without having to resort to re-installing the
OS and all that entails?

in another post you asked how to *add* the commonly used fonts, such as
what's included with microsoft office.

now you want to remove them?

in any event, simply uninstall the apps that installed the non-stock
fonts, which should (but may not necessarily) remove the fonts.

On 2015-01-25, Sage wrote:
nospam wrote, on Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:35:33 -0500:

fonts are *very* complex, and basically works of art.

I could make do with CourierNew and Helvetica.
You're implying they are works of art.
I disagree.

They're just stinking basic characters that have been around
for thousands of years.

nah, any font containg a glyph for the letter u is less than 1000 years
old.

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On 2015-01-27, Sage wrote:
Chris Ahlstrom wrote, on Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:48:17 -0500:

Monospaced fonts are important when writing code.

I agree that monospaced fonts are useful.

So, the only question of import is whether or not a monospaced
font comes, by default, with the operating system.

Does it?

Often there's one in the BIOS, unless ypu've only got MDA

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In article , Sage wrote:

How do we do that?
What ARE the most common typical fonts on Windows, Mac, and Linux?
How do we figure that set out?

Trial and error, when it comes to Linux. I had to do stuff like

font-family: Arial, FreeSans, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif;

to get a web page to "look okay" in all three OSs. When I was doing
stuff like that.
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Jolly Roger wrote:

Removing fonts in Mac OS X is as simple as running FontBook and using
the Delete key on your keyboard.

One should be careful. Some apps won't work if you remove the "default"
system font it relies on. There was some bizarre thing with Terminal a
few years ago -- it wouldn't open a window if you'd removed (I think)
Monaco, even if you opened the prefs and changed the font.
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In article , Sage wrote:

What am I looking at?
If I delete the cinelerra fonts.dir file, am I helping things?

Probably not with Cinelerra. I think it wants it's own fonts for its
display.
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In article , Sage wrote:

What do you mean they can't fingerprint you "individually"?
That's the whole point of fingerprinting.

Who is this they?
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On 2015-01-27, Warren Oates wrote:
In article ,
Jolly Roger wrote:

Removing fonts in Mac OS X is as simple as running FontBook and using
the Delete key on your keyboard.

One should be careful. Some apps won't work if you remove the "default"
system font it relies on. There was some bizarre thing with Terminal a
few years ago -- it wouldn't open a window if you'd removed (I think)
Monaco, even if you opened the prefs and changed the font.

I wasn't recommending it - just stating a fact. The guy is obviously
off his rocker and will probably screw his system up no matter what
anyone tells him.

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On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:52:40 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:51:49 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:06:44 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:11:44 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

not only that but typewriters had fonts, you just had to replace the
appropriate parts (and on some typewriters that was easy).

Only some more modern typewriters, like the IBM selectric, had fonts
on "golf balls." But historically all typewriters worked with striker
keys, and changing the font on them not only wasn't easy, it wasn't
possible.

And please don't forget Daisy Wheels :-)

Right, thanks. I couldn't remember that term.

But my point remains. They are only on relatively modern typewriters,
not on most.

Still, I should get credit for reminding you of Daisy Wheel typewriters.

I'll settle for two gold stars.


What, my "thanks" wasn't enough? OK, you can have two gold stars. Have
a third, if you're still hungry.

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:41:07 -0500, nospam
wrote:

today people email or text, which is why typewriters have long been
relegated to antiques on display. nobody actually uses one other than a
novelty.


Typewriters started disappearing way before e-mail or text became
prevalent. As soon as PCs became common, many people switched from
typewriters to PCs with word processors.

Soon after I got my first PC (mid 1980s), I used the typewriter I
still had only for typing envelopes (since my dot-matrix printer did
continuous forms). But it wasn't long after that when I realized I was
hand-writing the envelopes rather than bothering with the typewriter,
and gave it away.

After the typewriter was gone, it was almost another ten years before
I got my first e-mail account.

In article , Ken Blake
wrote:

Typewriters started disappearing way before e-mail or text became
prevalent. As soon as PCs became common, many people switched from
typewriters to PCs with word processors.

email existed long before pcs became common.

Soon after I got my first PC (mid 1980s), I used the typewriter I
still had only for typing envelopes (since my dot-matrix printer did
continuous forms). But it wasn't long after that when I realized I was
hand-writing the envelopes rather than bothering with the typewriter,
and gave it away.

After the typewriter was gone, it was almost another ten years before
I got my first e-mail account.

you didn't have email until the 90s??

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:27:20 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Ken Blake
wrote:

Typewriters started disappearing way before e-mail or text became
prevalent. As soon as PCs became common, many people switched from
typewriters to PCs with word processors.

email existed long before pcs became common.\


Existed? Yes. I didn't say it didn't. I used the word "prevalent,"
not "existed." Few people had an e-mail account before the 1990s, and
it wasn't until the turn of the century before it could be said that
it was common.



Soon after I got my first PC (mid 1980s), I used the typewriter I
still had only for typing envelopes (since my dot-matrix printer did
continuous forms). But it wasn't long after that when I realized I was
hand-writing the envelopes rather than bothering with the typewriter,
and gave it away.

After the typewriter was gone, it was almost another ten years before
I got my first e-mail account.

you didn't have email until the 90s??


Right. If I remember correctly, it was in 1995.