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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
by 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 agoJust 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 agoThanks 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.