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[css-fonts-4] Mention in-extremis privacy options #5578
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This takes time, and checking for more than a few hundred fonts
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introduces a noticeable delay in page rendering.
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For <em>especially privacy-sensitive contexts</em>,
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options would include never downloading any webfonts
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(at the risk that some characters may be rendered incorrectly, or not at all),
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or always downloading all webfonts whether needed or not
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(ignoring unicode-range,
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and potentially downloading vast quantities of unused fonts
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each time the page is viewed).
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<h3 id="sp202">Is this specification exposing the minimum amount of information necessary to power the feature? </h3>
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An emerging consensus is that a User Agent must expose Preinstalled Fonts

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