The wisest would certainly be, IMO, the pre-made anti-fonts list described in the article. Obviously for once I’m not emphasizing on privacy but on page rendering. Calming down : it’s my favorite and I dislike generally speaking serif fonts... Need to say, I like, I love, I adore, I worship the ‘Arial’ font. For this I’ve set a simple CSS applicable to all pages, set for Arial with exceptions for icon/glyphs ... whatever a font rendering an image may be : – Consider not further privacy but aesthetic reasons to use my font of choice everywhere except for given font classes required for ... images. – together with the LocalCDN Firefox extension and its ‘Block Google Fonts’ option My choice has long been to disable websites choosing their fonts (“_document_fonts” = 0) with per-site exceptions : for that I used then a dedicated Firefox extension:īut then, when I authorized a site to use its own font(s) for the purpose of having its glyphs displayed, I’d have to accept all of its fonts ... Why? Mainly because I’ve encountered too many display inaccuracies with glyphs and various “icon” fonts, those fonts used to display a small image, i.e. – I do not use a dedicated uBO filter as mentioned in the article General>Language and Appearance>Fonts & Colors>Advanced>Allow pages to choose… This can limit most (but not all) JS font enumeration which is a high entropy fingerprinting vector – I do not disable websites choosing fonts (0=block, 1=allow) pref(“gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled”, true) // DEFAULT=true
– I do not block Firefox’s download of Web fonts : The article summarizes all available settings to handle a user’s relationship with Web fonts. Now You: how do you handle web fonts? Are you concerned about them? (via Collinmbarret) Just import it into your content blocker of choice to block the majority of web fonts out there on third-party sites First party sites are still allowed to load them.Īnother option is to use a pre-made anti-fonts list, which you find here. This blocks the use of web fonts on third-party sites only. Sites that do not display correctly may be excluded from the blocking. To activate it, select "Block remote fonts" in the extension's settings. The content blocker includes an even stricter option, which blocks all remote fonts. Open the Settings, switch to My Filters, and add the line *$font,third-party. Users of the content blocker uBlock Origin may add a single custom line to it, to block web fonts. You may need to scroll the window to see the option. Uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selection above".Scroll down to the Fonts section and select the Advanced button.Load about:preferences#general in the browser's address bar to get started.Introduced in Firefox 41, it enables Firefox to set specific fonts for visited websites. The browser has another setting that may be of use. Web fonts can be blocked in a number of ways, depending on the browser that is used.įirefox users may set the preferences gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled and gfx.downloadable_ to false to block downloadable fonts in the browser. This monitoring may include Google accessing and using your API Client, for example to identify security issues that could affect Google or its users. YOU AGREE THAT GOOGLE MAY MONITOR USE OF THE APIS TO ENSURE QUALITY, IMPROVE GOOGLE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, AND VERIFY YOUR COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS. The APIs are designed to help you enhance your websites and applications ("API Client(s)"). Google, for example, highlights the following in the terms: Not all organizations that host web fonts use the information to track users, but there is always the chance that this is happening. Since requests are made to servers, e.g., Google servers that host the company's fonts, information such as the IP address is automatically submitted. Users who are on a tight bandwidth budget or on very slow connections may benefit the most from the blocking. Issues with the server may also lead to loading issues on the site. While that is usually quick, it still adds to the loading time. Performance is the obvious one, as a request needs to be made to the server hosting the font to download it.