Okay, so: German court decided on Jan. 20th 2022 that sites will need to host Google fonts locally.

Visitors are otherwise entitled to receive 100€ in recompensation for Google fonts transferring IP numbers to Google servers.
Google uses fonts to track users, especially if they are logged into only one other server, where stored personal data might identify them.

Court decision text in German (Landgericht München)

rewis.io/urteile/urteil/lhm-20

#google #tracking #fonts #liability #germany #funny

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@jayrope Access & file structure on remote servers can change at any moment.

Besides being a privacy trojan-horse, it was always bad practice in my opinion and just opening yourself up for a potential future failure.

I hate fixing code problems created by moving targets.

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