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Years ago I did sudo bash -c 'echo ":: fonts.googleapis.com" >> /etc/hosts' sudo bash -c 'echo "0.0.0.0 fonts.googleapis.com" >> /etc/hosts' and I haven't
by TazeTSchnitzel 4y ago
Years ago I did
sudo bash -c 'echo ":: fonts.googleapis.com" >> /etc/hosts'
sudo bash -c 'echo "0.0.0.0 fonts.googleapis.com" >> /etc/hosts'
and I haven't looked back.
- einpoklum 4y agoI am often tempted to push this further to: sudo bash -c 'echo ":: google.com" >> /etc/hosts' sudo bash -c 'echo "0.0.0.0 google.com" >> /etc/hosts'
- 0daystock 4y agoWhat exactly do you believe doing this will accomplish, other than cutting off access from a search engine?
- midislack 4y agoStops the biggest advertiser from profiling you on every site, obviously.
- dan_pixelflow 4y agoIt doesn't, though. Google use other domains.
- midislack 4y agoBlacklist those too then.
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoI'd suggest 1e100.net[1] too. 1: https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/174717?hl=en https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/174717?hl=en
- quickthrower2 4y agoBlazingly fast!
- sbf501 4y ago...and the other 10,000 sites you interact with per year? I realize security posture is about layers, but this is pointless.
- TazeTSchnitzel 4y agoIt's not for privacy's sake! I leave that to Privacy Badger. I just prefer having pages load quickly and don't generally think custom fonts improve the experience.
- sbf501 4y agoAh. I see. But doesn't blocking Google's CDN create all kinds of functionality problems on non-google sites.
- TazeTSchnitzel 4y agoActually, it's only Google's sites I've seen it cause problems on, because some of their documentation makes use of icon fonts served from that CDN. Other sites have no problems in my experience. The font fallback works fine.