Aug 15
Serve local copy of Google font
Loading Google Fonts directly from Google raises privacy concerns. In Austria and Germany, there was a wave of lawyers demanding fines from website owners whose sites loaded fonts from Google's servers, threatening to sue if they didn't pay. It was essentially an extortion scheme, but it highlighted a real underlying issue.
Today, the standard legal recommendation is to serve Google Fonts locally. Currently, I work around this by downloading the fonts from Google myself, then replacing the default Google Fonts my theme uses with the uploaded files. This works, but it's cumbersome.
It would be much more convenient to have a simple checkbox — or a site-wide setting — that tells Umso to cache Google Fonts on its own servers and serve them from there, rather than loading them directly from Google.
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