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As someone who disables webfont downloading, I hate when fonts are used for icons.
by ebg13 7y ago
As someone who disables webfont downloading, I hate when fonts are used for icons.
- mrholek 7y agoThat's why you can use SVG icons
- ebg13 7y agoNo, it's up to the web developer to choose that. The person using the site doesn't get that choice.
- jessaustin 7y agoWhy do you disable webfont downloading?
- ncmncm 7y agoSlow and sans-serif loaded, in my case. I have directed by browser to use Linux Libertine in place of all web fonts, and have a much improved experience, bad icons notwithstanding.
- rozab 7y agoWhy do you think Google hosts all these fonts for free? Nearly every webpage today has a request to fonts.googleapis.com. Most adblockers don't even blacklist it.
- packetslave 7y agoNot to get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, but Google Font requests don't include any tracking cookies.
- Minor49er 7y agoYou don't need cookies to track user activity across the web. If Google is using Etags for example for handling the caching of their web fonts, and if the user doesn't have the referer headers disabled, then Google can see who is visiting which page and when. There are other ways to achieve this too
- adrusi 7y agoThey still get a request with a Referrer header. But only when the resource isn't cached, so it's not like they're getting notified anytime anyone opens any webpage. But they do get a heuristic measure of how much traffic is going to any webpage that loads a font from google.
- minitech 7y agoSome common reasons include transferring less (data/bandwidth limitations) and reducing attack surface (fonts have historically been involved in a surprising number of vulnerabilities).