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by janvidar 2988 days ago
CSS is Turing-complete.

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

3 comments

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.