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by StLCylone 2315 days ago
Loading fonts is tracking and data collection. It's what Google does. If they build the fonts into the browser, then tracking/data collections calls are not made.
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They could embed it in Chrome. If someone is using Chrome, google doesn't need any more points of data. They know everything you do.
yeah but you can sort of opt out of tracking by chrome, so its best to have fallbacks to be able to track all the things!