Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#31552 closed feature request (duplicate)
Drop Google Webfonts from Core
Reported by: | Hinjiriyo | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.1.1 |
Component: | External Libraries | Keywords: | |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
As this article shows (1) using Google Fonts in the WP core opens a privacy hole. As you can read in the article's comments Google Fonts even slow down whole WP installations in some countries like China.
"There is plugin for that...." - yes, but there are much more users not knowing that, as the WP team pointed out in the article "Our Philosopies" (2): "The average WordPress user simply wants to be able to write without problems or interruption." - and so does not want to search and install a plugin for such a special topic.
Using Google Fonts is also against the philosopy "Clean, Lean, and Mean". Just using the browsers' built-in fonts is sufficient.
I ask to delete using Google Fonts from the WP core and backend to improve privacy, security and performance.
(1) http://fontfeed.com/archives/google-webfonts-the-spy-inside/
(2) https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/our-philosophies/
Duplicate of #29761 and #26072.