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Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by eloisius on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:33AM (#31680923)
I disabled web fonts by default in uBlock Origin. The internet is so much better without them. I selectively enable them for sites I use frequently that have special icon fonts that mess up the interface if they can't load.
Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by bee_rider on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:53AM (#31681949)
Is there a need to use uBlock for this sort of thing? In Firefox, there's a button to allow sites to use their own fonts, in the 'advanced' fonts menu. I don't see any reason why a website should pick it's own fonts.

I go back and forth on allowing it to set background and text colors. Forcing black text on a white background does make some pages pretty ugly, but it does force everything to be readable.

Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by eloisius on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:56AM (#31681991)
There isn't, except that it makes it possible to selectively enable them on certain sites. They don't bother me for things that I use regularly and already have them cached, like my bank. In fact, without them a lot of UI elements like carets and button icons become junk.
Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous by bee_rider on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:05AM (#31682135)
Yeah, the caret issue was a little weird to get used to, but I find it kind of funny now.