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Why wouldn't I just self-host the fonts on my server? What are the benefits of such CDN? Years ago I could understand it because it may reduce latency (cache), but since browsers don't cache from 3rd party servers anymore, also this is argument is obsolet.
$ dog A AAAA fonts.bunny.net
CNAME fonts.bunny.net. 10s "bunnyfonts.b-cdn.net."
A bunnyfonts.b-cdn.net. 10s 195.181.164.130
CNAME fonts.bunny.net. 9s "bunnyfonts.b-cdn.net."
A bunnyfonts.b-cdn.net. 9s + 195.181.164.130Why wouldn't I just self-host the fonts on my server? What are the benefits of such CDN? Years ago I could understand it because it may reduce latency (cache), but since browsers don't cache from 3rd party servers anymore, also this is argument is obsolet.
I would guess they have a server nearer your client than you do.
That's pretty much always faster than a new TLS handshake, regardless of roundtrip.
All these hoops we have to jump though and products to create, juste because the USA decided that no other country matters, and pushed the CLOUD Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
Why wouldn't I just self-host the fonts on my server? What are the benefits of such CDN? Years ago I could understand it because it may reduce latency (cache), but since browsers don't cache from 3rd party servers anymore, also this is argument is obsolet.
Additionally, a CDN will let that content be closer to your customer, so even if it wasn't cached with the magic of CDNs it should be faster than one origin server.
On the font pages, they use this as the example sentence: > The quick brown bunny jumps over the lazy dog. While the site is trying to be quirky and cute, replacing 'fox' with 'bunny' doesn't showcase what 'f' and 'x' look like.
you can replace the text with whatever you wish though so it's not an issue
Years ago I did sudo bash -c 'echo ":: fonts.googleapis.com" >> /etc/hosts' sudo bash -c 'echo "0.0.0.0 fonts.googleapis.com" >> /etc/hosts' and I haven't looked back.
sudo bash -c 'echo ":: google.com" >> /etc/hosts'
sudo bash -c 'echo "0.0.0.0 google.com" >> /etc/hosts'All these hoops we have to jump though and products to create, juste because the USA decided that no other country matters, and pushed the CLOUD Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
It’s also good because Google almost certainly uses data from Fonts for selling ads. I’m much more concerned about that than the theoretical uses by the US Govt, though I’m not a fan of those either.
On the font pages, they use this as the example sentence: > The quick brown bunny jumps over the lazy dog. While the site is trying to be quirky and cute, replacing 'fox' with 'bunny' doesn't showcase what 'f' and 'x' look like.
Wrote a quick Python script to explore alternatives. The best I found with two words was: - The quick brown bunny jumps over the lazy podgy fox. If you want to do it with one word you can do: - The quick brown bunny jumps over the oversexualized dragonfly.
- The quick brown bunny jumps the oversexualized dragonfly.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s also good because Google almost certainly uses data from Fonts for selling ads. I’m much more concerned about that than the theoretical uses by the US Govt, though I’m not a fan of those either.
https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#:~:text=/google/font... .
Use of Google Fonts API is unauthenticated. The Google Fonts API does not set or log cookies.
In other words, data from font serving does not feed into advertising personalization.
(Disclosure: I used to work on ads at Google)