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...and the other 10,000 sites you interact with per year? I realize security posture is about layers, but this is pointless.
It's not for privacy's sake! I leave that to Privacy Badger. I just prefer having pages load quickly and don't generally think custom fonts improve the experience.
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Why not? Make encrypted backups with `borg` and use `rclone` to distribute them to a number of free cloud storage services -- this is what I and many others do. One of my destinations is Yandex Disk. They all only see an encrypted Borg repo. And in the next few weeks or months I'll make sure they won't even be seeing that. Just a few opaque files several tens of megabytes big each. I wish them luck cracking it, lol.…
We are talking about saas, will you put your photos there? Or use yandex email?
Let's be honest: all those big players sing all our data to whoever they like, any moment they like. Pretending one is better than another is dishonest.
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> And we can thank EU for the extremely annoying cookie pop-up’s on every website. I've never heard anybody who wasn't in or adjacent to the tech surveillance industry complain about this.
It probably had 0.01% effect on their profits so I don't see why they would be upset.
Feigning ignorance. People in or adjacent to the tech surveillance industry (either working in it or having a substantial portion of their net worth invested in the industry) whine about cookie consents constantly, but nobody else gives a shit.
Are you telling me that you have no financial or professional stake in the matter? You haven't worked for or invested in a company that profits from tracking people online? Nor any of your friends or family?
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A growing number of websites support dark mode theming, but not all of them. When I open a page in reader mode and switch to dark theme, I don't expect logos in the text to fade into the background. Svg is also often much larger than a font file, especially one that's subset. While it's not svg or on the open web, I have a particular hate for sborn.jpeg in ebooks, as I read my ebooks in dark mode at night and having…
> Svg is also often much larger than a font file, especially one that's subset. Subsetting is where SVG shines, though. For icon fonts, you can much more easily subset SVG icons than a font file. Font file subsetting needs dedicated tools like font editors (with Icomoon being a common choice these days) and often manual maintenance/upkeep, whereas SVG tree shaking is a natural part of any web bundler (webpack, etc) a…
I've never used webpack or any other bundler on any personal website I've written, nor have I ever used react or other heavy frameworks (I used jQuery when I was in school). Perhaps these are useful on larger websites, but I prefer to avoid scripts in general, with the sole exception being scripts that parse a data source to generate a page client-side (most pages on my system are static, so I don't even have php or such installed). To me, automation means I make changes to the html on my server and reload the page.
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The difference is Europe is better at restricting corporate overreach than the US is, regardless of how similar their governments have become. That said, I'd take almost any European government over any US government of my entire lifetime, especially when it comes to actually enacting privacy legislation. I couldn't care less about web fonts though. I'm not downloading them from Google or "bunny.net" or anywhere else…
Here are the GDPR fines: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ Enacting legislation is one thing. Somalia is excellent at enacting gun control legislation.
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And it's such a niche privacy issue too. I would gladly take a shared cache over cache isolation. Especially for something used on as many sites as Google Fonts is.
You may be interested in the LocalCDN extension [1] which tries to solve the privacy vs speed issue for common resources by intercepting known remote resource requests and returning a local copy. 1: https://www.localcdn.org/
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> Better performance Counterbalanced by the fact that if you just throw any old random font file on your server, it'll quite possibly be larger (in some cases considerably so) than necessary. So now you need to subset/split up the font files yourself, which takes some extra work (and the various online subsetting tools I've found often don't allow proper control over which OpenType typographic features to keep, somet…
It's super trivial to outsource the sub setting to Google Fonts. Just request their CSS and curl the font files referenced in it. If that is too tedious, build a small proxy.
(And in my case that whole effort wasn't actually so much for philosophical reasons, i.e. to try avoiding to use Google at all costs, but rather because Google Fonts was serving an outdated version of the font I was wanting to use, and was missing either some additional characters or bug fixes that were only added in a more recent version.)
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That political party's actions are about weakening the federal government so as to make it easier for large corporations to behave abusively, not because of trust. States have less resources, and can be played against each other. The public-facing excuse for Joe Q Public is "they can't be trusted!", "less taxes on your hard-earned money" (when corporate share of taxes has plunged from the 50-50 split it used to be, i…
> That political party's actions are about weakening the federal government so as to make it easier for large corporations to behave abusively, not because of trust. Can you think of a reason people would do that if they didn't trust those corporations more than the federal government?
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It's not for privacy's sake! I leave that to Privacy Badger. I just prefer having pages load quickly and don't generally think custom fonts improve the experience.
Ah. I see. But doesn't blocking Google's CDN create all kinds of functionality problems on non-google sites.