alt Hacker NewsSure, but I think some of the stuff it sends isn't necessary. A website doesn't need to know the list of fonts on my machine, for example.
Some of them are questionable: most websites do not need to know my time zone, but when a website can use that in a useful way related to its functionality, it would be annoying if the browser were to popup an allow/deny dialog, and even more annoying if I had to manually set it in the website's bespoke settings panel.
I'm not sure what the solution is here.
> A website doesn't need to know the list of fonts on my machine
Unless you disallow websites from choosing their fonts, that information is really hard to hide. Most likely impossible.
What you can do is standardize the list.
> most websites do not need to know my time zone
Almost anything with a form needs this.
Every information on that page is necessary for something common and desirable. It's not using any advanced fingerprinting that can be blocked.