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by fevangelou 2208 days ago
Here's a simple idea for the Chromium team: Bundle the top 100-200 Google web fonts (in .woff2 format) with Chromium (less than 20-30MBs) and boom, you just accelerated the entire internet.
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Firefox's Decentraleyes addon is built on a similar idea: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...

It does not work with fonts as far as I'm aware, but it can serve popular libraries locally, saving bandwidth, and protecting privacy.

What about all that juicy tracking data though?
What data do you think is tracked exactly?
I don't know exactly what they're harvesting, but I'm assuming Google isn't offering a free font API out of the goodness of their hearts.

Do you disagree? Maybe they're giving away a font API for literally nothing in return........