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Comment by TazeTSchnitzel | Hacker News Reader

Years ago I did

  sudo bash -c 'echo ":: fonts.googleapis.com" >> /etc/hosts'
  sudo bash -c 'echo "0.0.0.0 fonts.googleapis.com" >> /etc/hosts'

and I haven't looked back.

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...and the other 10,000 sites you interact with per year? I realize security posture is about layers, but this is pointless.

It's not for privacy's sake! I leave that to Privacy Badger.

I just prefer having pages load quickly and don't generally think custom fonts improve the experience.

Ah. I see. But doesn't blocking Google's CDN create all kinds of functionality problems on non-google sites.

Actually, it's only Google's sites I've seen it cause problems on, because some of their documentation makes use of icon fonts served from that CDN. Other sites have no problems in my experience. The font fallback works fine.

Blazingly fast!

I am often tempted to push this further to:

  sudo bash -c 'echo ":: google.com" >> /etc/hosts'
  sudo bash -c 'echo "0.0.0.0 google.com" >> /etc/hosts'

What exactly do you believe doing this will accomplish, other than cutting off access from a search engine?

Stops the biggest advertiser from profiling you on every site, obviously.

It doesn't, though. Google use other domains.

Blacklist those too then.

I'd suggest 1e100.net[1] too.

1: https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/174717?hl=en

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