Developers, do not embed Google’s products on your sites & compromise the privacy of your visitors.
#CleanUpTheWeb & strip your site of tracking devices by Google, Facebook, etc. to make the web safer. Yes, that includes Google Fonts loaded from Google’s servers.
@FuckOffGoogle @aral Google *fonts*? Can someone explain the problem there? There's not even any JavaScript involved...
@quarktheawesome @FuckOffGoogle @aral
Google font: they serve the font file to your visitors. It's a file transfert. So, they collect a log entry on their server with their IP/browser/where-they-came-from/etc... and because many dev use Google-font, they have a map of most of your visitors move accross the internet.
You can read my "second fight" on this article I published in 2016 : https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article390/my-fight-against-cdn-libraries
@davidrevoy @quarktheawesome @FuckOffGoogle @aral You can also download the font and serve it locally
