A browser plugin to make (Google) fonts offline

2 points by rspoerri 4y ago ↗ HN

I am concerned about my privacy on the internet and i think using cdn's for data that is very common and often reused - such as fonts - opens a huge door to user tracking.

In a short research i did not find a browser plugin to replace online font cdn's with locally cached fonts. I wanted to open a discussion about the feasability, problems, ideas and interest in such a plugin.

If you think this is a good idea and you'd love to work on it, you are very welcome to "steal" it. I will hardly be able to work on it myself in the near future.

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sysadm1n 4y ago ↗

You can disable webfonts globally in uBlock Origin, but you will see some sites that are broken because sometimes devs like to use a font file as an icon library. If that's the case, you can enable fonts just for a specific page. This doesn't happen often in my experience. Anyway, any sane developer would use SVG for icons and use system fonts instead of third-party webfonts libraries.