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Disables Custom Fonts across all website. Saves Bandwidth. Blocks Trackers

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2014-01-19 · latest 2022-02-03

Mentions per year 6 mentions · busiest year 2016 (2)
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  1. …PHP, Java, and Firefox in the navbar [1] because the glyph matches the file-icons system font somehow. [0]: github.com/captn3m0/disable-web-fonts [1]: https://imgur.com/a/k0HG1i5
    comment by captn3m0 · 2022-02-03 · in In defense of user-defined web fonts
  2. …suffering from dialup speeds and using Chrome, you should try out my extension to disable web fonts: http://github.com/captn3m0/disable-web-fonts . It blocks all network requests to font-files. Also has a couple other tips in the README…
    comment by captn3m0 · 2017-01-15 · in After 1 minute on my modem (2016)
  3. …to disable all web-fonts: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-web-fonts/... Source: https://github.com/captn3m0/disable-web-fonts Helped me save lots of bandwidth.
    comment by captn3m0 · 2016-11-03 · in Web fonts, boy, I don't know
  4. …for Chrome [0]. I mostly wrote it when I had a metered connection and wanted faster access. [0]: https://github.com/captn3m0/disable-web-fonts
    comment by captn3m0 · 2016-07-11 · in GitHub.com font changed
  5. …EDGE connection long time back. (Opera Turbo is best for that, but Chrome is a better browser). [0]: http://github.com/captn3m0/disable-web-fonts [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/olmabeadgbpmhllgdk...
    comment by captn3m0 · 2015-10-04 · in Web Fonts Performance
  6. …most of its interface). [0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-web-fonts/... [1]: https://github.com/captn3m0/disable-web-fonts