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by zinekeller 2028 days ago
> Then Google Fonts is not correctly coded, as it'll use remote font only.

For a good technical reason: the version installed on the computer may not really match whatever the version on Google Fonts serves (fonts have notoriously no semantic versioning aside from some programmer-oriented fonts, examples of these outside are Segoe UI (changed between Windows 7 and 8) and Liberation fonts (some versions notoriously lack some glyph symbols) and on Google Fonts platform the Exo and Exo 2 problem (which was resolved by renaming the second version to Exo 2)).

Of course, there are also some benefits to Google (you know what are those benefits are).