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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 03:52:55 JST mhoye

   I asked myself, if I'm setting my own fonts, why is my browser hitting fonts.googleapis.com?

   And I am both surprised and not-surprised to discover that Google will lie to you at the dns level and blocking fonts.googleapis.com with Ublock Origin fully removes a class of unwanted captchas from my browsing experience.

   In Firefox: Extensions, UBlock Origin, click the gear, "My Filters" at the top, check the enable box, add this:

   ||fonts.googleapis.com

   And suddenly this goes away:

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   frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 23:06:22 JST frogzone

   POLL: do webdevs know what happens when they tell a browser to fetch a css from, fonts.googleapis.com, typekit, or jsdelivr, do they realize the false economy of it? do they realize that google, akamai and cloudflare respectively will learn when people are visiting your site via things like the referrer header?

   A yes, they know, dont care.
   B they know but either in bed with googs, or scared of not appeasing googs
   C no idea, they just think "FREE CACHE.... KOOL!"
   D no idea, copy/pasted from another site or some corporate captured tutorial claiming a 0.2 second speed benefit, lol.