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The title font is really hard to read. Thanks Firefox for your reader mode. Someone here browse the web blocking remote fonts? How was your experience? I know

The title font is really hard to read. Thanks Firefox for your reader mode. Someone here browse the web blocking remote fonts? How was your experience? I know uBlock Origin has this option, I may give it a try.

froggit 3y ago
I block remote fonts w/ ublock! It's pretty handy in a "I always know text is gonna be rendered with a font I can read and it cuts down on having to make the connections to get them. ublock has a bit of a learning curve (half an hour reading on their wiki) to get the most outta it, but just blocking remote fonts just takes a couple clicks in check boxes.
- pentagrama 3y ago
  Just tried for a bit, all good til I noticed in some sites using icon fonts I got a weird character, it make sense, but is a problem there, specially for icons without labels, eg: https://imgur.com/a/8D1OC9n https://imgur.com/a/8D1OC9n Don't know why devs will use fonts instead of svgs for icons, I guess there is a reason.
velosol 3y ago
I have and briefly the majority of the time you're missing little to nothing by not using webfonts. Occasionally the design language of a physical media property is carried forward with the font in a way that is interesting enough to be worthwhile (ie _The Atlantic_'s title font is instantly recognizable but not critical). If you're bandwidth starved (ie ISDN or worse) then it's also a nice speedup.
- pentagrama 3y ago
  Yeah, but as I mentioned in other comment, I found many issues with icons by blocking remote fonts, look at Google Podcasts https://imgur.com/a/6de4uNL https://imgur.com/a/6de4uNL
  - velosol 3y ago
    Google Podcasts while ugly without that icon font is still usable but the Mercado site seemed to be inaccessible. With uBlock you could allow fonts on the broken sites but probably not worth the effort outside of really low bandwidth.

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The title font is really hard to read. Thanks Firefox for your reader mode. Someone here browse the web blocking remote fonts? How was your experience? I know

by pentagrama 3y ago

froggit 3y ago
I block remote fonts w/ ublock! It's pretty handy in a "I always know text is gonna be rendered with a font I can read and it cuts down on having to make the connections to get them. ublock has a bit of a learning curve (half an hour reading on their wiki) to get the most outta it, but just blocking remote fonts just takes a couple clicks in check boxes.
- pentagrama 3y ago
  Just tried for a bit, all good til I noticed in some sites using icon fonts I got a weird character, it make sense, but is a problem there, specially for icons without labels, eg: https://imgur.com/a/8D1OC9n https://imgur.com/a/8D1OC9n Don't know why devs will use fonts instead of svgs for icons, I guess there is a reason.
velosol 3y ago
I have and briefly the majority of the time you're missing little to nothing by not using webfonts. Occasionally the design language of a physical media property is carried forward with the font in a way that is interesting enough to be worthwhile (ie _The Atlantic_'s title font is instantly recognizable but not critical). If you're bandwidth starved (ie ISDN or worse) then it's also a nice speedup.
- pentagrama 3y ago
  Yeah, but as I mentioned in other comment, I found many issues with icons by blocking remote fonts, look at Google Podcasts https://imgur.com/a/6de4uNL https://imgur.com/a/6de4uNL
  - velosol 3y ago
    Google Podcasts while ugly without that icon font is still usable but the Mercado site seemed to be inaccessible. With uBlock you could allow fonts on the broken sites but probably not worth the effort outside of really low bandwidth.