{"id":243,"date":"2010-09-14T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:13:51","slug":"the-privacy-of-fonts-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/the-privacy-of-fonts-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"The privacy of fonts on the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/Linotype-mischt-bei-den-Webfonts-mit-1078988.html\">heise wrote<\/a> about Linotype&#8217;s offer in the &#8220;fonts for webpages&#8221; market.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m not mistaken, that&#8217;s not the first commercial offering of licensing fonts for the new HTML\/CSS font feature. On one hand, this a really good offer, as it allows amateur sites to use professional fonts for free and commercial, high-traffic sites can use these fonts for a reasonable price.<\/p>\n<p>But one thing bugs me about these offers: In order to enforce the pay-per-pagehit business model, these services need to serve the fonts from their own servers. That means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the plus side, potentially better caching between different sites.<\/li>\n<li>But: the font-servers implicitly track all visitors to the website using these fonts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given all the privacy implications that embedded ads and social media gizmos (&#8220;click here if you like this&#8221;) are starting to raise, fonts seem to be the next thing you need to be careful about if you&#8217;re conscious about the traces you leave in third-party access-logs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, heise wrote about Linotype&#8217;s offer in the &#8220;fonts for webpages&#8221; market. If I&#8217;m not mistaken, that&#8217;s not the first commercial offering of licensing fonts for the new HTML\/CSS font feature. On one hand, this a really good offer, as it allows amateur sites to use professional fonts for free and commercial, high-traffic sites can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}