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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by WA on Thursday October 29, 2015 @06:19PM (#10474785)
Same here. I never really used third party domain software. I used Google Fonts for a while, but I find it pathetic to have some font files and some CSS loaded from a different server than mine. Google Fonts (and every CDN) can be a lot slower than my own server. Sometimes, the site hangs while "waiting for google.com". Silly.

Also, Google Fonts might be Google Analytics in disguise. Who knows.

I use Piwik for tracking, but the self-hosted version. I don't even use newsletter services. I bought a cheap newsletter plugin for Wordpress which I use as an autoresponder email course.

But delivery is all that matters they say. And yet, all Mailchimp and Aweber and whatnot goes 100% to my spam folder automatically. I believe the delivery argument is a myth.

The best part: Decision making is much easier. "So, your product can't be installed on my own server? Bad luck, I won't become your customer."

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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by nacs on Thursday October 29, 2015 @08:55PM (#10475542)
> I used Google Fonts for a while, but I find it pathetic to have some font files and some CSS loaded from a different server than mine

You can have the fonts and not have any requests leave your site by using something like this[1]. It downloads the Google font data so you can serve the font files and CSS from your own site.

https://github.com/majodev/google-webfonts-helper

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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by Wilya on Thursday October 29, 2015 @11:20PM (#10475990)
In theory, the point of Google Fonts is that it does user-agent sniffing to adapt the font and css to the user's browser, to get the best rendering. You would lose that advantage by hosting the fonts yourself.
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by WA on Friday October 30, 2015 @05:34AM (#10476872)
In practice, I'd set up the CSS such that modern browsers render it beautifully and give a crap about older browsers. Or make a CSS for older browsers without that font.
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by WA on Friday October 30, 2015 @05:36AM (#10476878)
That's great, thank you :)
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