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I wonder how much this is going to affect themes for popular CMSs. E.g. WordPress and others. A lot of the themes built for those platforms generally pull their

I wonder how much this is going to affect themes for popular CMSs. E.g. WordPress and others. A lot of the themes built for those platforms generally pull their fonts from Google Fonts. And, I know from experience that some of them don't provide the option to easily remove such a "feature". Still, I agree that this is a bit of a silly measure.

nicbou 5y ago
Given that there is virtually no enforcement for flagrant GDPR violations... not at all.
- ratg13 5y ago
  Do you have any examples of this?
  - nicbou 5y ago
    Welt.de comes to mind. Just see what you accept with "legitimate interest" tracking. This is one of the largest news publications in Germany. There are far, far more of them, but I don't see them thanks to my ad blocker. Just look at this: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
    - ratg13 5y ago
      But this is not a GDPR violation as they are telling you what data they are collecting and how they are processing it.
      - nicbou 5y ago
        There is no single-click opt-out, which is very explicitly required by GDPR. It's also a gross misrepresentation of what "legitimate interest" means.
syntheticnature 5y ago
After initial news of this ruling I inspected the theme on my rarely-updated Octopress-based site and found that it included third-party Google Fonts. Turns out most themes for static site generators do so. I haven't fixed it yet, only because the effort/risk ratio was low (very little traffic), but I still plan to fix it.