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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…
European countries do the same for USA gov on US citizens.
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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…
My understanding of privacy international privacy stuff is if a European gov wants to spy on their own citizens, but the law prevents them, they phone up the USA and have the USA do the spying(hacking?) and get the data from them. European countries do the same for USA gov on US citizens.
In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US and the packets never leave the US.
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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. 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)
Does Chrome send the unique identifier with Google Fonts API requests? If so, they don't need cookies.
x-client-data: CKe1yQEIkrbJAQiitskBCMS2yQEIqZ3KAQiVocsBCOeEzAEIhKvMAQjys8wBCL+1zAE=
Decoded:
message ClientVariations {
// Active client experiment variation IDs.
repeated int32 variation_id = [3300007, 3300114, 3300130, 3300164, 3313321, 3330197, 3342951, 3347844, 3348978, 3349183];
}
[1] https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#variat...
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What exactly do you believe doing this will accomplish, other than cutting off access from a search engine?
Stops the biggest advertiser from profiling you on every site, obviously.
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…
you won't believe this, but as the end user you can solve this in your life once and for all, and also improve your life! something rare for online annoyances nowadays. any decent browser, i mostly use firefox, have a checkbox in the font screen that prevents sites from changing the page font. i set all sites to user Ubuntu Mono. always. all the time. everywhere. the only downside are sites that use winding-like font…
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…
you won't believe this, but as the end user you can solve this in your life once and for all, and also improve your life! something rare for online annoyances nowadays. any decent browser, i mostly use firefox, have a checkbox in the font screen that prevents sites from changing the page font. i set all sites to user Ubuntu Mono. always. all the time. everywhere. the only downside are sites that use winding-like font…
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My understanding of privacy international privacy stuff is if a European gov wants to spy on their own citizens, but the law prevents them, they phone up the USA and have the USA do the spying(hacking?) and get the data from them. European countries do the same for USA gov on US citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes?wprov=sfti1 In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US and the packets never leave the US.
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…
What is important here, and why these laws matter, is how trivial it is to get access to your data, or for companies to sell your data. That’s why I appreciate the European’s effort to have better laws for our privacy.
If you really want to be government proof, then you better host everything in a server in a remote secret location out of their reach.