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Here's a simple idea for the Chromium team: Bundle the top 100-200 Google web fonts (in .woff2 format) with Chromium (less than 20-30MBs) and boom, you just acc
by fevangelou 6y ago
Here's a simple idea for the Chromium team:
Bundle the top 100-200 Google web fonts (in .woff2 format) with Chromium (less than 20-30MBs) and boom, you just accelerated the entire internet.
- Ayesh 6y agoFirefox's Decentraleyes addon is built on a similar idea: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes... It does not work with fonts as far as I'm aware, but it can serve popular libraries locally, saving bandwidth, and protecting privacy.
- chance_state 6y agoWhat about all that juicy tracking data though?
- vntok 6y agoWhat data do you think is tracked exactly?
- chance_state 6y agoI don't know exactly what they're harvesting, but I'm assuming Google isn't offering a free font API out of the goodness of their hearts. Do you disagree? Maybe they're giving away a font API for literally nothing in return........