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by nake89 156 days ago
Your message sent me down a weird rabbit hole of trying to find privacy friendly alternative to google fonts. I found this: https://github.com/coollabsio/fonts They claim to be a privacy friendly drop-in replacement. Their main website: https://fonts.coollabs.io/
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The easiest solution is to simply self host your fonts.
The easiest solution is to use the default font. This has the additional benefit of being the most legible font for every reader, because it's the one they have the most experience reading.
remember the times when common sense was to not accept the remote site's fonts, and thus web devs should not use them
Yes. I recommend everybody to do a deep dive into font file formats and you'll see a lot of monsters hiding.
That definitely deserves better tooling!