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Another reason you may want to self host your fonts vs Google Fonts is to support proxy (VPN) users. Google's gstatic.com service rejects requests from the pro
by mleonhard 5y ago
Another reason you may want to self host your fonts vs Google Fonts is to support proxy (VPN) users.
Google's gstatic.com service rejects requests from the proxy service I use. This causes websites that use Google-hosted fonts to load with invisible text then show the text after a few seconds. This makes browsing slow. It affects the Flutter & Dart docs.
When Google's gstatic.com blocks proxy users, they break sites and apps that use code hosted on it: Google account login, Google Cloud Console, Google Maps, Google Search, search in all Google apps, etc. I'm a paying customer of Google Apps for Business and was unable to use their support site to contact them. To contact Google Support, you must get a Support PIN code. The PIN only lasts an hour, so the one I wrote down last year doesn't work anymore. It seems that there is no way for a proxy user to contact Google Support to report problems logging in. I'm transitioning away from Google products.