fonticons VS Decentraleyes

> bundle it with something like https://fortawesome.com/ Using FA as a CDN is not GDPR compliant, either. Generally speaking using any public CDN is not GDPR compliant. If you _could_ self host the files, then you can not meet the necessity test required for any of the relevant legal basis in GDPR art 6(1). Google Fonts and FA are worse, because the personal data is shipped off wholesale to the USA. Neither FA or... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

+1 It's not even clear if using Google Fonts is GDPR compliant (since you're leaking the fact that your visitor has visited your website): https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495 Even if you do want to use your own custom pretty font on your site, just self host it, or bundle it with something like https://fortawesome.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

In the same spirit as this initiative and uBlock Origin and NoScript: > Decentraleyes is a free and open-source browser extension used for local content delivery network (CDN) emulation. Its primary task is to block connections to major CDNs such as Cloudflare and Google (for privacy and anti-tracking purposes) and serve popular web libraries (such as JQuery and AngularJS) locally on the user's machine.... - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

DecentralEyes stores common files locally (JS libraries, fonts), so you don't need to waste bandwidth fetching them over and over. These days I actually prefer LocalCDN, which is the more active fork and features an even larger local library. Source: over 1 year ago

Another option for this is https://decentraleyes.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Decentraleyes Caches CDN links locally and intercepts requests to serve from the cache. Prevents CDNs from tracking you across websites. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

This extension can help prevent this type of tracking: https://decentraleyes.org/. Source: almost 2 years ago