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>We want everyone on the latest versions for caching reasons From a privacy perspective, I'd love to know what the "caching reasons" are. Purely speaking in t
by snowpanda 9y ago
>We want everyone on the latest versions for caching reasons
From a privacy perspective, I'd love to know what the "caching reasons" are.
Purely speaking in terms of big data, I think being able to track users across domains by font requests, even those with ad-blockers, would be in Google's best interest.
I don't think saving money on bandwidth is Google's primary concern at this point.
- garblegarble 9y ago> I'd love to know what the "caching reasons" are. I'm betting it's about the client having the font already cached for greater performance, not particularly about bandwidth cost to Google.
- matt4077 9y agoYou're going out of your way to paint Google's arguments in the worst, malicious light. Their interest in caching is not to save their own bandwidth costs, but to lower costs and load times for users. Google's efforts in the web performance space are well documented (see lighthouse as one example). The reasoning for "only the latest version" also happens to be the only one that makes sense: having multiple versions of each font drastically reduces the ability of browsers and CDNs to cache, quite obviously. The motive you ascribe to google, namely user tracking, has absolutely no logical connection to the "latest version only" practice: Google's ability to track users would actually be enhanced by versioning, because their servers are only ever contacted for uncached resources.