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So Google is hosting fonts because they are a nice company that is just providing us with free fonts? Think again. If you block tracking pixels you should als

• rconti 7y ago
  Huh, I had never heard of remote fonts. https://collinmbarrett.com/block-web-fonts/ https://collinmbarrett.com/block-web-fonts/
• DevKoala 7y ago
  Not only fonts but any resource.
• lern_too_spel 7y ago
  The font resources are hosted on a cookieless domain and sent with caching headers. None of this applies. The reason Google is hosting fonts is to make the web an attractive platform, so they can monetize you in other ways.
  • thdrdt 7y ago
    So my IP address never ends up in their logs?
    • lern_too_spel 7y ago
      IPV6 privacy extensions make IP addresses have very little tracking value, but this article is about tracking pixels, and Google Fonts clearly don't apply here. If you set your Referrer-Policy headers correctly, Google doesn't know which pages your users are visiting.
• bungie4 7y ago
  https://decentraleyes.org/ https://decentraleyes.org/ Recommended by privacytools.io
• boring_twenties 7y ago
  The trouble with this is that many websites nowadays use fake fonts where the glyphs are the icons that make up the UI. Without the font, you don't see the icons, and thus have no idea what the various buttons and labels do or mean. It annoys the crap out of me because I'd love to disable fonts for the simple reason that having every page use its own font for text is distracting. I don't need my eyes to adjust to a new font for every page. I want to pick my favorite font and only ever see that one. On a completely unrelated note, I'll never forgive Mozilla for removing support for gopher urls in the browser.