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> It starts out with loading a font from Google Fonts. Besides the steps order... My first impression is that it's taking someone who knows nothing, and condit
by neilv 2y ago
> It starts out with loading a font from Google Fonts.
Besides the steps order... My first impression is that it's taking someone who knows nothing, and conditioning them from step 1 to not even think about compromising a privacy-respecting, free and open Internet. Your First Third-Party Tracker. Your First Gratuitous Third-Party Dependency.
A couple times they hit on copyright and licensing, however. Which I approve of, but is also a corporate-friendly thing to emphasize.
Another one:
> To choose an image, go to [Google Images](https://www.google.com/imghp https://www.google.com/imghp) and search for something suitable.
If you have to name and link a search engine for the exercise, how about not endorsing a famously privacy-invading option, but instead have the student use a more privacy-respecting one?
- nacs 2y ago> To choose an image, go to Google Images Or plug one of the many royalty-free photo sites like Unsplash or Pexels (and comes with the bonus of teaching people to consider copyrights when you publish a site).
- edoceo 2y agoAnd also those two sites you mentioned have higher quality and less clutter. A significant improvement in tool choice to what MDN suggested. Hopefully we can fix this via contribution.
- labster 2y agoI don’t think either of those websites pay Mozilla millions of dollars. Maybe the more important lesson they’re teaching is that money makes the world go round.
- juliangoldsmith 2y agoThe search engine they linked to happens to provide a significant portion of Mozilla's revenue.