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Firefox > Settings > General > Fonts > Advanced

Uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above"

No remote fonts anywhere.



Breaks lots of icons and such right? I disabled fonts for like a day with Ublock Origin but it was too inconvenient


If you block via uBlock Origin, you can make exceptions for sites that get broken too much.


You underestimate the average person's laziness.


Yeah but it just kept happening so much with regular browsing I decided it was simply not worth it


I have not noticed any breakage though it may well happen.

But pages are fast to load, I get a consistent chosen font across all sites and my privacy (at least for font loading) is respected.


A few elections ago, the New York Times used a font of state glyphs to display icons in its real-time election results.†

If you didn't have that font, you couldn't figure out the election results without clicking through to each state's page to see the results.

† It's quite nice. If memory serves me correctly, the Times even open-sourced it.


Just close the offending site and never, ever return. Works wonderfully!




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