google web fonts is one small way the adtech behemoth uses its monopoly powered network effect to surveil people across the internet.

I was guilty of using it out of convenience on my old vanity website and stagnant blog, but last night I spent a little time excising it (see https://lab.burn.capital/chaz/chazomatic.us and https://lab.burn.capital/chaz/blog.chazomatic.us).

For anyone else looking to reduce google's stranglehold on the internet in this small way, I found some nice google web fonts alternatives:

https://fontlibrary.org/ has a small but decent library of free fonts, and they deliver the css similarly to how google does, so you can use it without offering the fonts for download yourself.

https://fontcdn.toolforge.org/ is a service that proxies google web fonts while preserving your privacy, so you can use it as a direct drop-in replacement.