❌❌ WordPress.org Strongly Urges Theme Authors to Switch to Locally Hosted Webfonts

In light of a recent German court case, which https://wptavern.com/german-court-fines-website-owner-for-violating-the-gdpr-by-using-google-hosted-fontsweb fonts, WordPress.org’s themes team is updating its recommendations for hosting web fonts.

The Themes Team is also considering banning remotely hosted fonts moving forward and will discuss them at the next meeting.

WordPress developer Xaver Birsak has created a small single-purpose plugin called Local Google Fonts that automatically detects Google font sources and gives users the option to download them and use them locally.

Really this "privacy laws" fuckery is getting to obnoxious levels now.

So you're telling me that you can sue someone for using Google webfonts in your website that gets viewed in the EU? What the actual fuck?

how the hell is something trivial like this even a matter of concern that requires legal action?

yup, most cache plugins, esp. css caching, have option these days to use locally hosted fonts.
even my Kadence theme/builder has that option. I hope Elementor / Divi / Astra are also having those options in-built.

Ashk881 said:

how the hell is something trivial like this even a matter of concern that requires legal action?

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Too much money, I guess