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One thing that baffles me in the last webfonts i’ve used is that in the install instructions the css has some @import tracking line and an explanation that the
by fimdomeio 5y ago
One thing that baffles me in the last webfonts i’ve used is that in the install instructions the css has some @import tracking line and an explanation that the font does not work without that line, which is a plain lie. If i already have some troubles understanding charging by page views, trying to force my users to be tracked by them is just crazy.
- omnimus 5y agoI think you overestimate how technical most of these type foundries are. The industry is basically few huge corporations like Monotype, Adobe, Google Fonts and then 100s of tiny independent 1-5 person companies. These are no web engineers and mostly are just somehow trying to figure out how to survive. I wouldn't think there's much malice behind it... more like incompetence. Most of webfonts sales are delivered just as .woff files to be selfhosted. Probably also reason why people use them because Google Fonts exists specifically to track people.