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by funcDropShadow 705 days ago
You are missing the point. Finally, it'll be possible to exploit side-channel attacks without using Javascript in the browser. Static HTML+CSS+Fonts websites won't be safe anymore. Yippieee! Finally, there is no reason to allow disabling Javascript anymore.

And you could add backdoors to hacked fonts that are activated by magic spells. Isn't it great.