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Re:Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Googl... by Hovertruck on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @04:41PM (#1362274)
My guess is they don't want to send all the cookies stored on the google.com domain whenever someone loads a font.
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Re:Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Googl... by ggrot on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @05:01PM (#1362339)
Seems reasonable. It protects users too because they can't track the cookies across these domains even if they wanted to.
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Re:Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Googl... by revicon on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @08:21PM (#1362853)
Yahoo does this as well for the same cookie reason. Lots of stuff is hosted on yahoo.net that's considered potentially unsafe.
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