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Mitigated by uMatrix and other Firewall tools, no? I don't find myself ever needing to allow Google Fonts/Analytics to view a page.

https://www.easyjet.com had a hilarious bug where their menu bar wouldn't work if you were blocking Analytics.

But yes, it is often not a problem at all to block Google Fonts/Analytics - almost everything works as expected.

There's actually a bunch of sites that are similarly broken; if any script fails to load (including, yes, analytics) nothing works.

That was why I originally started using uBlock origin… it had a thing to shim in that, as opposed to uMatrix which didn't.

> not a problem at all to block Google Fonts

Just checked my uBlock Origin on smh.com.au: fonts.gstatic.com are loaded ...