I don't understand where you get this whole "service" idea from, but it clearly shows that you've never actually interacted with google fonts in any way. Any d

I don't understand where you get this whole "service" idea from, but it clearly shows that you've never actually interacted with google fonts in any way. Any different "service", would have the EXACT SAME ISSUE: Hot-linking leaks user IP-Data to whoever hosts the hot-linked content. If you use the google fonts home page _as designed by google_ it already makes you download the fonts to self-host them along with your own sources. And as for their motivation, google fonts originated from android, because again licensing fonts plain sucks, and google has an incentive to make developing apps and websites as easy as possible in order to strengthen their ecosystems.