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A couple of months ago a german court decided that website owners whose pages load google fonts without prior acceptance by the visitor offend against GDPR and must pay compensation for immaterial damage (yes, it's mad) if brought to court. This is because for the download process your IP address is transmitted to the US and in contrary to european laws state institutions there can use this IP in reverse to get personal data from european providers and hosters. Therefore users must be able to reject the font loading or the fonts have to be loaded locally from a european server. I examined the given osComm templates and found that google fonts are loaded en masse. So I thought "lets comment out the loading code" and arrange the loading from my server or lets use substitute-fonts by the system. I failed by doing so because I could not find any (header-) code responsible for it. My guess now is that it must be found in the database. Before I start screwing around in the database my question: has anybody already solved this issue and can provide a plan? The second question: can the osComm developers either provide a GDPR fitting tool to let the visitors decide whether they want google fonts or not or just renounce the use of those fonts? Thanx and regards