Self-host your fonts for better performance
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Re: Self-host your fonts for better performance
#2LocalCDN (Firefox Extension) solves the performance issue on the client side, i assume:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork...
https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN/src/branch/main/resourc...
(and adds extra privacy as a bonus.)
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#3Funny to see the article mention "Sia" without a surname, so I assumed it was the famous "Sia" (singer).
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#4A question: instead of redownloading the same resources again and again, can we achieve privacy by adding delay between requesting a resource and providing it? It could be the same amount of time it took downloading it the first time or some randomized value. It won't speed up pages, but at least will save from bandwidth and data caps.
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#5I'm usually the first one to sneer in disbelief at super users who 'go nuclear' and disable the likes of javascript and images when browsing the web, but lately, I've been experimenting with having custom fonts disabled (that is, fonts I don't have locally), and it feels to me that page loads are much faster, and in some case more readable (pages feel 'cleaner'?).
The only issues I've come across so far is when a site uses font symbols, but overall, I've been pleasantly surprised.
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#6A question: instead of redownloading the same resources again and again, can we achieve privacy by adding delay between requesting a resource and providing it? It could be the same amount of time it took downloading it the first time or some randomized value. It won't speed up pages, but at least will save from bandwidth and data caps.
I've read your comment 3 times, and I'm still not exactly sure what you are suggesting, or what the purported benefit is? (it's probably my poor interpretation, but I'd appreciate if you wouldn't mind expanding :)
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#7Makes sense now that cross-site resources can't be shared (previously your Google Font loaded on another site, which is downloaded into your local cache could be used, but it seems like that isn't possible anymore).
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#8I am just surprised that the origin of an article which such a title is not blog.google.com for once.
Re: Self-host your fonts for better performance
#9A question: instead of redownloading the same resources again and again, can we achieve privacy by adding delay between requesting a resource and providing it? It could be the same amount of time it took downloading it the first time or some randomized value. It won't speed up pages, but at least will save from bandwidth and data caps.
I've read your comment 3 times, and I'm still not exactly sure what you are suggesting, or what the purported benefit is? (it's probably my poor interpretation, but I'd appreciate if you wouldn't mind expanding :)
He wrote that: save bandwith and data caps.
He would lose performance but win more privacy.
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#10It's infuriating to see so much web tech being discarded created during the 90s and 00s in good faith, just because the web was subverted into an app delivery platform (in this case, shared caches were obsoleted by timing attacks) and the arms race for ever more crap to counter the negative effects, insufficiently. The web may now be a platform to lock-in and enslave users; just isn't anymore a recommendable place for sharing documents, reach out, and inspiration. We didn't need that; we had plenty of app platforms already.
Edit: you can still serve Google-commissioned fonts directly from your domain of course, and CDNs were always a bit fishy