Is it possible to remove google infestation from my Hugo site?

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Providing uMatrix output to see what i mean:

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I’m using custom fonts.
Just want to simplify website for unneeded requests to third parties.

Any ideas on this?

Link to website

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  1. Self-host your fonts rather than get them from Google:
    Good stuff without Google | BryceWray.com

  2. Use an analytics provider other than Google Analytics. I recommend Fathom Analytics*, but some prefer Plausible Analytics.

* Full disclosure: that’s an affiliate link. If you sign up with Fathom after doing the free trial by using that link, you’ll get a discount and I’ll receive a small commission.

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Thanks for answer. I’m not using google fonts, custom fonts are loading from my website.
And i don’t need any analytics whatsoever.

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I based the note about fonts from your graphic. But, to be sure, this comes from the source code of your link:

<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//fonts.gstatic.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400i,700">

… and from the browser’s Network tab checking for fonts:

https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/opensans/v34/memvYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVTS-mu0SC55I.woff2

:person_shrugging:

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Aha, i get it. Thank you so much!
There are unneeded requests in css file regarding fonts and analytics.
But i need to investigate more, i don’t think that this will be so easy to solve.

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Removed lines:

{{- $googleFontsLink := .Site.Params.googleFontsLink | default "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400i,700" }}
	{{- if hasPrefix $googleFontsLink "https://fonts.googleapis.com/" }}
        <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
	<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//fonts.googleapis.com">
	<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//fonts.gstatic.com">
	<link rel="stylesheet" {{ printf `href="%s"` $googleFontsLink | safeHTMLAttr }}>
	{{- end }}

AND

{{- if not .Site.IsServer }}
		{{- if hasPrefix .Site.GoogleAnalytics "G-" }}
		{{ template "_internal/google_analytics.html" . }}
		{{- else }}
		{{ template "_internal/google_analytics_async.html" . }}
		{{- end }}
	{{- end }}

But still getting doubleclick.net requests, google analytics, gstatic and gfonts on pages with youtube videos, where {{<youtube >}} code is used. On plain pages with text and images requests disappeared.

It looks like there is no easy way to get rid of that…

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Do you have this in your site configuration?

[privacy.youtube]
privacyEnhanced = true

https://gohugo.io/about/hugo-and-gdpr/#all-privacy-settings

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Ohaaa, that was super helpful!
Thanks for pointing out. Strange thing that i didn’t find it by myself [lazy bastard].

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