Googleapis fonts: Hidden API problem slows down the website and imposes GDPR obligations
If you ever thought you had completely freed your website from various API add-ons, this will surprise you. Even when you remove virtually everything (Analytics, Tag Manager, YouTube embeds, and all tracking scripts), you may still be connected to the Google API by a hidden, almost invisible line. This line is Google Fonts – fonts that have quietly found their way into almost every theme, builder, and plugin without you even choosing them. And here’s the most important part: website owners are neither guilty nor liable for being automatically bound by GDPR obligations because of these fonts.
Google Fonts were built into web tools as the default choice, so most people got them “in a package,” without warning and without the option to avoid them.
How did Google Fonts even end up with us?
Google Fonts became the standard because they were:
- free,
- fast,
- easy to use,
- pre-built into WordPress themes, builders, and plugins.
Most site owners didn’t even choose them—they came with the theme, like those “free extras”
you get but don’t really want.
Why they are problematic
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