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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 load time if you're letting Google host the fonts can be painful at times. That's more common with multiple font families.
Better route is to have the fonts local and use something like fontsquirrel.com for your site.
But then there's the whole ethics debate about using Google crap to power your sites UI, analytics, etc...
@mwpdx @FuckOffGoogle @aral I wonder about the speed... Google has the resources to make a pretty crazy CDN, and the popular fonts are almost guaranteed to be cached. Very different compared to my site which bounces between free static site hosts, soon to be selfhosted...