Re: Request: Using Rubik Webfont from Google Fonts Directory in debian.org

Hi,

> Paul, the code snippet above is under assumption that Rubik font is
> installed on debian.org server (via yet to be created package).

There are several reasons we don't want to use external fonts:

* We want to make our websites use resources from Debian
  infrastructure.

By using webfonts from external sources, we can make other companies
possible to sniff our visitor statistics.  Some people here do want to
migrate away from Google as well.

* Not all people have unlimited network access.

For example, my mobile internet access do have a data cap at 1.7 GiB,
and I intended to have the data cap because I want to warn myself about
phone addiction.  Some people using satellite internet access could
suffer from extra payments just by a webpage embedding webfonts.

The web nowadays contains mostly meaningless data, especially tracking
code, unwantingly large images, unnecessary javascript and webfonts,
etc.  And I hope we can withstand against the trand.

Yao Wei

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