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They are an advertising company, which pretty much makes them data collection company. Its completely fair to question their motivations.
by RexRollman 13y ago
They are an advertising company, which pretty much makes them data collection company. Its completely fair to question their motivations.
- jfb 13y agoI personally think that Google does things like this because they can; they are not under money pressure (yet?) to have to really try to extract maximum value from every bit served or watt consumed, and can thus spend energy on initiatives like this that improve the web as a platform -- it's at best an indirect benefit, but fits their overall corporate strategy. And, it's cool. I have my doubts about Google, but I don't have a problem giving them the benefit of the doubt here.
- garthdog 13y agoMake the web better for all forms of content so that people don't resort to proprietary tech?
- ChrisArchitect 13y agosure, advertising. but the goal here is to make the web more user friendly and useful for people, through better looking design/readability etc. That helps us all, and if then in turn they can keep the ad platforms alive, good on them I say.
- DannyBee 13y agoThe motivations, as far as i know, are written on the about page: "A web with web fonts is more beautiful, readable, accessible and open. " Google Fonts makes it quick and easy for everyone to use web fonts, including professional designers and developers. We believe that everyone should be able to bring quality typography to their web pages and applications." If you have some actual evidence that the last part isn't true, and that it's really some big scheme to "log visits", what is it, exactly? FWIW - my dealings with the team, which mostly involve reviewing occasional open source font contracts, makes me believe they really are just crazy about making web typography good. But i'm really interested in whatever sinister theories people have. I mean, you know what they say about people who like "Signika Negative".
- eps 13y agoYour naivety is adoring.
- mda 13y agoYour hat is shiny.
- DannyBee 13y agoIf you want to skip the personal attacks and explain 1. What "trillions of visits logged" means, exactly. IE what you think is being logged past a request for a font. 2. What you think the data is actually used for The web font loader is open source, so this should not be too hard to explain what it's sending that you think is valuable and why. Or you know, you could just continue on with meaningless ad-hominen attacks, since well, you never responded to anything i asked.