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LocalCDN (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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uMatrix is uBlock Origin (uBO) with 2 differences: 1) No cosmetic filtering. 2) A more powerful interface, as _underfl0w_ describes at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25302405 The key thing which that comment does not mention is that the interface enables a whitelist approach — block everything (read: as much as you want) by default and selectively allow certain types of content from certain sites. This is impor…
Actually, you _can_ configure uBO to block third-party content by default (by turning on advanced user mode); however, it's not as good as uMatrix as there is no split of request type (script versus image, etc.) as well as no UI to manage subdomains. You'll have to do that last part by editing the text configuration manually.
You can expand any base domain to see subdomains -- click where there is no text. You can also click the "all" cell to expand to see all subdomains.
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The secret of democracy is that, even when there are no good options to choose from, people agreed on the solution. Therefore you are not a the whim of a single person or entity and this legitimates the way you live. As for technology existing only because of Google or some other large company, that's not the case. Google was more innovative when it was smaller. Netscape created the whole browser industry as a small…
> The secret of democracy is that, even when there are no good options to choose from, people agreed on the solution. No, a plurality of people agreed on the solution, and everyone else disagreed with it but was stuck with it. > Therefore you are not a the whim of a single person or entity and this legitimates the way you live. Now you're at the whim of a popularity contest.
LocalCDN (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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That'd break sites that use ligature-based icon fonts, with the actual content being an icon identifier like "thumbs-up" and an OpenType ligature rule in the font to render this as an icon glyph.
Could you just get the icon name in that case? For me it would be good-enough, or, in many cases, better than the crammed design-first icons (Slack, I'm pointing at you!).
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I've sped up sites before by using inline svg rather than icon fonts - downloading an entire icon font for a few icons is inefficient when the actual SVG needed for those icons is < 1Kb and is waaay faster as inline SVG.
It's only faster on the first load. On all subsequent loads its slower and consumes more bandwidth. I find this irresponsible.
2. If you do find this irresponsible, then by all means create a small SVG file with the 5 icons in it and allow that to be cached, or even 5 small individual SVG files if it comes to that.
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There are so many solutions! * In uBlock Origin (which is a must have on bad internet): Settings > Block remote fonts * In browser, Firefox about:config, gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled, Chrome run with --disable-remote-fonts * Download fonts when on good connection > You can download all Google Fonts in a simple ZIP snapshot (over 300MB) > https://github.com/google/fonts installation depends on OS, on Arch Linux it w…
Are you just clinging to the last dev version of uMatrix, or did you find an active fork or something?
https://github.com/sergeykish/uMatrix/commit/929a25e39fc1d38...
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Most sites are still usable if you cherry pick a subset of the JS they invoke. Blocked trackers like Google analytics or tag manager rarely break things.
Except for sites that I use (internal websites for several vendors), and that is just to manipulate widgets, editors, and forms, and in one case, operate remote machinery. What methods for cherry picking do you like? I've only done all or nothing.
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> That might be due to font hinting. The default fonts (on Windows) were beautifully manually hinted to give a really crisp results without font smoothing. I used to work at MS, and a lot of people don't realize exactly how much time, money, and love is put into fonts there. When my team ordered custom fonts, I personally spent a lot of time going over each character pixel by pixel, in combination with many other cha…
Just want to say that I really appreciate you and people like you. I can spend hours looking over and comparing fonts I use because small problems can really bug me, no pun intended.
Same platform, different browsers, fonts render differently.
Different platform, same browser, fonts render differently.
Same computer, same browser, laptop monitor vs external, fonts render differently.
Same font, same computer, web browser vs local application, fonts render differently.
It is madness.
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Selling fonts is not rent-seeking. Rent-seeking would be if Google demanded money from a font designer to let their fonts be "compatible" with Chrome. I.e. Pay me or I'll make sure your product doesn't work with my product. App stores is a common example; pay Apple or they'll make sure your software doesn't run on the iPhone.
Some features of the license agreement are though. For example, some foundries require you buy a special expensive license in order to use their fonts in a PDF. IIRC, Hoefler & Co. and Emigre do this (though it's been years since I've looked, so I may have changed this). Their rationale is that since it's possible to extract font from a PDF, they need to pay for any font piracy that results from that. (never mind tha…
Rent-seeking is when a third party uses force to claim profit from an agreement they're not actually party to.
For example, you rent a business property. You pay the landlord and agree to their terms. Next week the mob shows up and demand protection money to "keep you from harm". Implying that harm will surely come to you unless you pay. That's rent-seeking.
The app store analogy fits rather nicely I think, but it depends on your viewpoint.