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Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by Markoff on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:08AM (#28166635)
blocking remote fonts in uBlock Origin has zero effect on Twitter, just tried, unless you mean something else, in that case please enlighten me how to have back left column with same font as before
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Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by Arnavion on Friday August 13, 2021 @10:43PM (#28177360)
https://i.postimg.cc/5Nk9tczJ/sw-appy-20210813-193919.png

https://i.postimg.cc/Gm8L8MPy/sw-appy-20210813-193924.png

In case that website blocks hotlinking: https://postimg.cc/gallery/RVSBXh7

The first image shows https://twitter.com/newsycombinator with devtools on the right showing that the computed `font-family` for that one span has "TwitterChirp", and the uBO logger at the bottom showing that chirp-*.woff fonts were blocked by my uBO rules.

The second image is the Fonts tab of the dev tools showing that the font that the browser is using is Roboto, which I have available locally.

As for how I do it, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26284124 . If you don't want to go that far, you can still create a rule just for twitter.com that blocks just the chirp*.woff URLs.

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