As some of you know, i use WordPress for my webpage. By coincidence i stumbled across the fact that WordPress now phones home to Google by default since the new version, to load a webfont. They have implemented a call to fonts.googleapis.com in the webpage somewhere. So everytime somebody calls my webpage, then Google counts this call too.
This is really nasty from WordPress! And my sympathy for WordPress has sunken quite a bit. My webpage is my property. And not an advertising or user counting platform for Google. Such things makes me really angry.
There is fortunately already a plugin avaliable that disables the calls to fonts.googleapis.com. It’s called Disable Google Fonts. And can be found in the WordPress Plugins. I have installed this plugin now. Fingers crossed that this prevents any further calls to fonts.googleapis.com.
I use a standard font anyways. And everything still looks normal to me. I hope that it doesn’t look too bad for others now.
Thank you so much for your advice. I kept looking in the source code to remove this google-font-call-thingy, but it wasn’t as easy as one would think. They are getting better at hiding it in complicated functions. The function itself wasn’t that hard to find … but disable the thing without wrecking the rest of the site is a whole other matter. Since this call decreased the performance of my site condiserably, I just had to remove it.
This plug-in did just the trick. It’s now gone, and I do hope it never ever returns.
To be totally honest I’m starting to disliking Google more and more every day. They want to control the internet. They are getting very sleek at monitoring our behavior and deciding for us (thus taking away our freedom) on what we reach/see/do online and what not. It’s starting to get really scary if you think about it.
Thanks again for your help!
I am glad that the information was of use for you 🙂
Great info. Lucky me I recently found your website by chance (stumbleupon). I’ve saved it for later!