Remove google dependencies

mwmbl / front-end-original

A front-end for the mwmbl search engine written in vanilla javascript

https://mwmbl.github.io/front-end/

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Remove google dependencies #12

Closed ColinEspinas closed 2 years ago

ColinEspinas commented 2 years ago

This is mostly about removing Google Fonts as it seems that it does not respect GDPR standards for privacy.

Here is a reddit post linking to an article (in German) talking about Google exploiting IPs from their CDN's users.

This is an occasion to not use any Google dependencies anymore as our primary concern is privacy.

daoudclarke commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to download the fonts and host them ourselves? I understood this mitigated the concerns

ColinEspinas commented 2 years ago

Yes that is what we are going to have to do in the future. This will probably lead to worse performance overall but shouldn't have to much impact since it's just one font.