The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to only what is needed to serve fonts efficiently. There's an awful

The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to only what is needed to serve fonts efficiently. There's an awful lot of weasel words in there. If it was a simple "The Google Fonts API doesn't collect or store any user data" that would be good. But there's so much hidden language in that one sentence. - "Designed" — Well, it was designed to do that, but it doesn't. After we're caught, we'll put out a press release saying We Can Do Better™. - "Limit" - It limits the collection. It doesn't prevent the collection. It doesn't not collect any data. It just collects "limited" data. And "limited" is defined by us and can be revised whenever we want. - "collection, storage, and use of end-user data" has so many ways to be abused. - "efficiently" — Efficient for who? Google? Google's advertising department? Google's profiling department? What if there's an inefficient way? What if there's a more efficient way, but it gives Google less data? All this may seem unkind, but Google has earned the planet's distrust. In the early years, Google didn't believe that reputation matters. It does. And that's why the legal departments of billion-dollar companies like the one I work for don't allow us to use Google products.