Serious privacy issue – GDPR and Google Fonts

  • Hey,

    the plugin loads fonts from google. This is not allowed in germany, because it transmits user data into the USA.
    In germany this can get you fined or your website visitors demand claims for damages.

    How can one solve this problem?

    feature request: Host the fonts locally on the webserver and load them locally … without loading them from google

    thank you

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  • Plugin Author Shareaholic

    (@shareaholic)

    Hi @tobiasber

    We will look into building this as a feature.

    In the meantime, in order to not have any Google Fonts load, you can disable the Headline text or choose a non-Google font (i.e. system font) for the Headline text such as:

    – Courier New
    – Comic Sans MS
    – Impact
    – Times New Roman
    – Default i.e. inherit from the page

    Thread Starter tobiasber

    (@tobiasber)

    thank you, that solved the problems.

    It would be nice to have the feature to store fonts locally.

    It would also be very nice to have an option to serve the other files from the plugin locally. We use cloudflare CDN and would prefer to use that for all files.

    I assume that using cloudflare would help visitors from the other side of the globe in regions with not so good (mobile) internet connection

    thank you

    Plugin Author Shareaholic

    (@shareaholic)

    Hi @tobiasber

    Google Fonts hosted by Google leverage their worldwide data center network. Similarly, all assets served by Shareaholic are served from a global tier-1 CDN network.

    Fonts hosted by Bunny.net (Global CDN) are GDPR compliant. Thinking about possibly switching to this: https://fonts.bunny.net/about What do you think? (in addition to the option to load fonts from anywhere)

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