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Yes. The person claiming Google Fonts would be "illegal" in Germany is misinformed. It is simply considered best practice to self-host Google Fonts now and yo
by cardanome 4y ago
Yes.
The person claiming Google Fonts would be "illegal" in Germany is misinformed.
It is simply considered best practice to self-host Google Fonts now and you are absolutely safe doing so.
The basics of privacy law is basically don't violate the privacy of your users for no good reason. There is no technical justification to use a Google's third party service for fonts, especially as that potentially allows Google to track users. (You could still use Google's hosting if you were to get prior user consent though. Just have a fallback font. That wouldn't be worth it though.)
So yes, you can use third party services and CDNs on your website but it needs to be either technically necessary or you need for user consent beforehand.
- Jack5500 4y agoJust to make sure, I didn't say illegal, just unlawful. I agree with everything else you said.
- Archelaos 4y agoTo further contextualise the judgement: This was a trial before a medium level district court (Landgericht). So there has not yet been any landmark court decisions on this specific issue in Germany.
- tiborsaas 4y agoIs caring about performance a good enough justification? Chances are most popular Google Fonts are already cached in your browser.
- 542458 4y agoCross-site caching doesn’t exist in any modern browser (IIRC each site gets it’s own separate cache) because it enables all sorts of tracking and leaks browsing history.