Reading our layman developer interpretations of the legalities here is very interesting, but that aside this really makes me rethink my own use of Google hosted

Reading our layman developer interpretations of the legalities here is very interesting, but that aside this really makes me rethink my own use of Google hosted fonts in my projects. Whether it is the browser responsible for making the request or my website being responsible for asking the browser to make the request, hosting the font myself is a readily available option. From the perspective of respecting users' data, why call out to Google at all when I don't really have to, for _any_ resource where there's a straightforward alternative? I say this as someone who does use Google Analytics as well (which I am removing). But mostly for me it isn't a case of dropping all third party convenience services, but a case of remembering to be _mindful_ of what I'm doing.