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Forcing web pages to anti-aliase

Here is an observation that has started to riddle me and perhaps someone can enlighten me. When a web page (or desktop page for that matter) uses the standard font, it is not anti-aliased, unless the user opts in to do so via the desktop settings.
It appears however that fonts are not automatically anti-aliased on some web pages, even when anti-aliasing is switched on, why? Moreover, when changing the font to something other than black (#000), say darkgrey (#333), anti-aliasing is effected, why?

Note: there is a marginal performance decrease when anti-aliasing is switched on, which on modern day computers is so immeasurably small, that the opt-in is actually riddling me more, because it might as well be switched on by default, but perhaps that is distribution dependent.
 
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