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It's better to block web fonts with uBlock Origin. It would be sweet if someone could add support for these fonts to Decentraleyes as well, which seems to be mi
by brenden2 6y ago
It's better to block web fonts with uBlock Origin. It would be sweet if someone could add support for these fonts to Decentraleyes as well, which seems to be missing. Seems to be some debate about the merits of doing so, however: https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes/issues/34 https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes/issues/34
I'm okay with 1st party usage, but I don't want Google following me around the web.
- Proven 6y agoYes!!! Block 'em, that makes all of them equally fast! Sometimes that can make things inconvenient (navigation buttons in HTML5 video players that use Web fonts) but it's well worth it.
- inetknght 6y agouMatrix blocks them when you disable css from third party sites. Noscript has an explicit checkbox for fonts.
- snazz 6y agoSo does uBlock Origin. It's the two As at the bottom of the panel.
- tyingq 6y agoI wonder if Mozilla or DDG or some other privacy centric org might consider mirroring Google's fonts.
- snazz 6y agoCloudflare should do this. They already have the infrastructure and they have a pretty good privacy reputation.
- WorldMaker 6y agoMozilla (and Chromium) could mirror Top X Google Fonts directly into the user's font system and entirely eliminate remote calls for a small size increase in the browser installation. (Or Microsoft and Apple could do it in OS images.) You can do it yourself, even, but unfortunately font loading timings are a deanonymization vector with its own privacy implications and it would take a concerted group effort to install similar font sets locally to avoid those privacy issues.
- snazz 6y agoThat would be an interesting concept. I like the idea of including them in Windows and macOS.