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Spot on. And most of website should not even need javascript but some simple extension to xhtml to allow interactive websites in a declarative fashion rather than having a Turing-complete language.

CSS is Turing-complete.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836 (2011) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10734966 (2015)

Those comment threads dispute that claim.

So?

So using CSS, one can fingerprint a browser and communicate that information back to home base by programmatic inclusion of font A or font B. This inclusion triggers the download from the respective URL, thus giving that URL information about the user.

Yeah so is Power Point too.

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