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My fonts alone makes me pretty unique it seems (<0.01%). 180 or so fonts that the browser is happy to share with the world. Does seem a little unnecessary.

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My list of fonts includes OpenDyslexic and OpenDyslexicMono and puts me at < 0.01% as well.

I can't remember which but either Firefox or Chrome only send a standard list of fonts.

Safari does that.

Firefox has an about:config preference that would let you set up a font whitelist yourself, but it doesn’t have a standard set.

Firefox's preference is "font.system.whitelist". You can specify a list of which fonts are exposed to web content (such as the default set shipped with your OS). The preference is used by the Tor browser.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1121643

Does Safari actually do something similar? On my Mac, amiunique.org reports 344 fonts in Safari, 331 in Firefox (not using "font.system.whitelist"), and 309 in Chrome.

Doesn't seem to be the case. I tried both browsers and got the same result, i.e. 180+ fonts sent (<0.01% match)

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