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Why 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 i
by rozab 7y ago
Why 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.