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You shouldn't rely on third-party fonts (some people like me block those) for your graphical design. This is how that page looks in my Chrome: https://i.imgur.com/y03EQBc.png (using uBlock Origin with Fanboy's Anti-thirdparty Fonts blocking list: https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-antifonts.txt). At least host those fonts yourself.

Meanwhile the old page works perfectly.

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I understand that you and some others may block 3rd party fonts, but the percentage of people that do this has to be tiny, no? I’d venture it’s around the amount that block all JavaScript.

Sure you should have your sites work without JavaScript and probably host all your fonts. I personally do that usually, but from a building standpoint, I’m assuming 3rd party fonts or forcing JavaScript for a normal site is going to be fine for more than 95% of your users.

It's not really a question of how many people are savvy enough to protect themselves from 3rd-party data collection.

I don't know how you feel about the GDPR (or the data brokerage industry, in general), but if web developers want to minimize government regulations we should probably architect our sites so as to minimize 3rd-party data collection of PII in the first place (which is enabled by including 3rd-party fonts).

Thanks for that suggestion and screenshot!

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