Prevent Google Fonts From Loading
Roland Grillenberger
Hello, I use Joomla 4 and the Helix Ultimate Template and SP Page Builder. I want to deactivate the loading of Google Fonts from https://fonts.googleapis.com/. All fonts are local in my fonts folder and added to custom.css. And I deactivated the fonts in the template settings. But there are still fonts loaded from fonts.googleapis.com, for example IBM, Noto, Roboto, Overlock... How/ in which file could I prevent the Google-Fonts from loading? Thanks an best regards, Roland
Muntasir Sakib
Accepted AnswerHello there,
I am extremely sorry to say but you cannot disable it as this is the default feature from us.
Thank you for your understanding.
Chriss
Accepted AnswerHi SP Team,
it is absolutely necessary to prevent the loading of Google fonts, because since 02.02.2022 there is a judgment that obliges the loading of fonts from Google without prior consent to pay damages.
If you do not integrate this function, the SP PageBuilder is NOT DSGVO compliant in the European market.
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The operator of a website had chosen the dynamic variant and had not asked the visitors for consent via a content banner. The plaintiff was disturbed by this. He sued for injunctive relief and damages. The Munich Regional Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff. The infringement led to the plaintiff losing control over his personal data to Google, according to the ruling. In addition, the website operator could at least theoretically combine the collected data with other data and thus identify the person behind the IP address. ........ The ruling follows the Austrian data protection authority's decision a few weeks earlier that the use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR, as the service transmits visitor:inside data to Google servers in the U.S., theoretically enabling surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies. ......
Exerpt: https://t3n.de/news/google-fonts-illegal-urteil-dsgvo-1447698/
Paul Frankowski
Accepted AnswerHi Chriss and Roland,
I know EU law, and German court cases as well. But this time, you have to look inside addon settings, and check one by one, which one have Google Fonts enabled and disable it.
- If in Helix Template - Typography do not use Google Fonts - they are not loaded.
- If in Pages /SPPB modules - Google Fonts are not set for addons - they are loaded.
Similar case was also today, 3h ago, also German webmaster, you could search before posting a duplicate. Link: https://www.joomshaper.com/forum/question/11674
Paul Frankowski
Accepted AnswerBTW
This guide advice has been created especially for EU webmasters: https://www.joomshaper.com/documentation/sp-page-builder/sp-page-builder-3/google-fonts-and-dsgvo