[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26072: Bundle the Open Sans font

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#26072: Bundle the Open Sans font
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 Reporter:  johnbillion     |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  high            |   Milestone:  3.8
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ui-focus        |
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Changes (by mindctrl):

 * cc: public@… (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:8 iammattthomas]:
 > Mostly what I've seen so far is along the lines of "what if Google..."
 (tracked us, shut down, whatever). I'm not aware of any concerns backed up
 by specific examples. If there ''are'' specific, documentable concerns we
 should detail them now so we can figure out how to overcome them.

 When a page is accessed that requests the Google fonts, the referring URL
 is sent to Google. To illustrate, I redirected fonts.googleapis.com to one
 of my own sites, and here are the requests:

 x.x.x.x - - [02/Dec/2013:20:59:32 -0500] "GET
 /css?family=Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext
 HTTP/1.1" 404 3065 "http://localhost/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac
 OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1686.0
 Safari/537.36"
 x.x.x.x - - [02/Dec/2013:20:59:36 -0500] "GET
 /css?family=Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext
 HTTP/1.1" 404 3065 "http://localhost/jobs-page/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;
 Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
 Chrome/32.0.1686.0 Safari/537.36"

 Any number of sensitive things could be revealed to Google this way. In my
 opinion, people shouldn't have to opt out of such privacy issues. Just by
 using the core WP 3.8 product as it currently is in trunk, people are
 automatically, and unknowningly, opting in to giving Google information
 about their habits, interests, products, etc.

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