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This is my preferred solution too. It’s really not necessary to use custom fonts to achieve a nice design in most cases.
Except for Android, very poor default fonts.
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The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to only what is needed to serve fonts efficiently. There's an awful lot of weasel words in there. If it was a simple "The Google Fonts API doesn't collect or store any user data" that would be good. But there's so much hidden language in that one sentence. - "Designed" — Well, it was designed to do that, but it doesn't. After…
There is no such thing as absolute privacy. By virtue of being a web-hosted service, you will need to interact with the end server, and that already has the potential to expose details like IP, referer, user-agent, etc. The wording around designing and limiting collection is acknowledging this inherent problem and letting the user know that they’ve done their best to prevent malice. It’s not weasel wording except for…
Can someone please answer the question ... why don't companies just self-host the fonts? And why aren't people doing that in the first place?
Time is money, and it's expensive to pay people to mess with things if they don't have to.
I might not choose to make the same tradeoffs, but I can understand why others might.
Behold exhibit A: https://i.imgur.com/6F7fZVm.png
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Breaks lots of icons and such right? I disabled fonts for like a day with Ublock Origin but it was too inconvenient
If you block via uBlock Origin, you can make exceptions for sites that get broken too much.
I find it really strange where some privacy debates have gone wrong, and this is a perfect example. It's basically a form of "don't trust them, better trust us, also we're in a country with better privacy laws". Which is an imperfect solution at best, and given that I have no idea who bunny.net is it's a questionable one at best. If you embed a font hosted somewhere else you expose some of your user data to them. Now…
> we're in a country with better privacy laws Speaking as a European: I think this is a very important topic for us. I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American government. Working with a company that is not subject to the whims of the American government is a huge privacy win. If a company pitches me a product, they start 1 points ahead if they are base…
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> we're in a country with better privacy laws Speaking as a European: I think this is a very important topic for us. I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American government. Working with a company that is not subject to the whims of the American government is a huge privacy win. If a company pitches me a product, they start 1 points ahead if they are base…
Between the joke of an energy policy in Germany this year and Douglas Murray’s books I have no confidence in European governments either. I used to feel Europe’s system was more competent but the illusion has been shattered.
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> we're in a country with better privacy laws Speaking as a European: I think this is a very important topic for us. I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American government. Working with a company that is not subject to the whims of the American government is a huge privacy win. If a company pitches me a product, they start 1 points ahead if they are base…
Unless you're under a totalitarian government, spies aren't really interested in most people's data. Data brokers, on the other hand, are willing to sell anything they can profit from.
Do not use this, use Google Fonts, just self-host them. This site claims better privacy, but does so using the wrong solution since you still have to trust them. Self host (supported by Google Fonts but not by this service): - Better privacy - Better performance (no extra DNS lookups, TLS connection) Their default embed code is a CSS @import directive. These must never be used in production code (It's fine as a direc…
> Leads to FOUC and FOIT. What are those acronyms?
