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by rafram 152 days ago
Google Fonts is not a tracker.

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy

> For clarity, Google does not use any information collected by Google Fonts to create profiles of end users or for targeted advertising.

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Google has carte blanche to lie to foreigners for national security purposes, it's not even illegal for them. The data is fed into the mass surveillance systems.

IP, user agent, language headers and network timings are enough to fingerprint and associate you with any other accounts at US tech companies. The visited website is linked via Referer / Origin headers to your browsing history.

All of this tracking is passive and there is no way to check for an independent observer.

Yet here you are defending the most privacy invasive company on the planet.

By default, loading Google Fonts from Google’s servers exposes user data to Google (e.g., IP Address, User agent, Referrer, Timestamps, Cache identifiers).

It's passive tracking, but it's tracking.

Well, if Google said it, it must be true.