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Google has a reputation of shutting their services down. What if they shut their fonts CDN down or change their URLs without redirects?

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This might not be end of the world. In a lot of cases convenience is worth the risks. There is no golden rule that one should never depend on third parties. It is always balancing pros vs cons.

Self hosting introduces extra code, resources and assets that you as a developer must introduce and maintain. This is not free.

Especially if worst thing that happens is a wrong font loaded.

Than a hell of a lot of sites lose their fonts until they update.

To be fair, lots of people being affected hasn't stopped Google in the past.

In the case of Fonts though, it's a good source of user and browser data, so it's not likely to be shut down any time soon.

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