The reasoning given, that font vendors don't want people linking to their fonts, seems pretty wrong headed. This is just another stupid standard making life har

The reasoning given, that font vendors don't want people linking to their fonts, seems pretty wrong headed. This is just another stupid standard making life harder and hurting productivity for web developers. I've never managed to fully understand the purpose of any cross-domain rules on the browser. So many can be easily (relatively) circumvented, why waste people's time at all?