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No, the best way is to randomly vary fingerprinting data, which is exactly what some browsers do.
Font list is just one of a hundred different identifying data points so just changing that alone won't do much.
I wasn't suggesting it as "font list and you're done". I was using it as an example because it's one where I'm apparently really unusual.
I would think you'd basically want to spoof all known fingerprinting metrics to be whatever is the most common and doesn't break compatibility with the actual setup too much. Randomizing them seems way more likely to break a ton of sites, but inconsistently, which seems like a bad solution.
I mean hypothetically you could also set up exceptions for specific sites that need different answers for specific fields, essentially telling the site whatever it wants to hear to work but that's going to be a lot of ongoing work.
It's a combination of both.