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1. David Revoy (davidrevoy@framapiaf.org)'s status on Saturday, 02-Jun-2018 23:53:33 UTC David Revoy

   @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

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   • mirla (mirla@quitter.es)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 08:33:16 UTC mirla

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     @davidrevoy @aral @fuckoffgoogle @quarktheawesome
     Indeed.
     You can use font-face instead, linking to your own font directory.
     https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#font-face-rule
     You can even check first if user's system has already those fonts.
     
     \@font-face {
     font-family: 'Flying circus';
     src:
     local('Flying circus'),
     local('FlyingCircus-Regular'),
     url('FlyingCircus.otf'); }
     
     Worth noticing: font-face.com died because of google fonts.
     
     On my personal machine I just have fonts.googleapis entry in my /etc/hosts redirected to localhost. I'm out :D