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Thanks for pointing this out. I guess this is something I had assumed Google does by serving the fonts for free, but I never really bothered to look into it.

Thanks for pointing this out. I guess this is something I had assumed Google does by serving the fonts for free, but I never really bothered to look into it. Going to remove all Google Fonts references from my projects now.

drivebycomment 7y ago
Google claims they don't track with fonts: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_google_fonts_api_mean_for_the_privacy_of_my_users https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_... Whether you believe them or not is up to you of course.
- sanbor 7y ago
  Where does it claims that it does not track? From your link: Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure. Aggregate usage numbers track how popular font families are, and are published on our analytics page. We use data from Google’s web crawler to detect which websites use Google fonts. This data is published and accessible in the Google Fonts BigQuery database. To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google's Privacy Policy.
  - drivebycomment 7y ago
    Just before the part you quoted has this: "Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Google Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so that your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail." That's basically saying Font download is not being associated with any individual. And the part you quoted says they keep the aggregate stats, which is reasonable, especially given that the aggregated stats are available publicly.
    - sanbor 7y ago
      Thanks for the clarification. However I'm not sure that means they don't track. They specify some of the things that they do with the data, but the last sentence "To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google's Privacy Policy" means that they could also use any piece of data to improve their products.
orthecreedence 7y ago
Keep in mind you can download the fonts and host locally. You don't have to let Google host.
- goodells 7y ago
  Would one run into licensing issues with this? I'm honestly not sure if their usage is predicated on being served from Google, nor knowledgeable enough about the law to even guess.
  - orthecreedence 7y ago
    Interesting question. I never thought of this and I don't have the answer.
  - A2017U1 7y ago
    Not at all. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+fonts+license https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+fonts+license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License

drivebycomment 7y ago

Google claims they don't track with fonts: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_google_fonts_api_mean_for_the_privacy_of_my_users https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_... Whether you believe them or not is up to you of course.

sanbor 7y ago
Where does it claims that it does not track? From your link: Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure. Aggregate usage numbers track how popular font families are, and are published on our analytics page. We use data from Google’s web crawler to detect which websites use Google fonts. This data is published and accessible in the Google Fonts BigQuery database. To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google's Privacy Policy.
- drivebycomment 7y ago
  Just before the part you quoted has this: "Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Google Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so that your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail." That's basically saying Font download is not being associated with any individual. And the part you quoted says they keep the aggregate stats, which is reasonable, especially given that the aggregated stats are available publicly.
  - sanbor 7y ago
    Thanks for the clarification. However I'm not sure that means they don't track. They specify some of the things that they do with the data, but the last sentence "To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google's Privacy Policy" means that they could also use any piece of data to improve their products.

orthecreedence 7y ago

Keep in mind you can download the fonts and host locally. You don't have to let Google host.

goodells 7y ago
Would one run into licensing issues with this? I'm honestly not sure if their usage is predicated on being served from Google, nor knowledgeable enough about the law to even guess.
- orthecreedence 7y ago
  Interesting question. I never thought of this and I don't have the answer.
- A2017U1 7y ago
  Not at all. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+fonts+license https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+fonts+license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License