As we all know, there was the article by RMS about the "JavaScript Trap" and some extensions like LibreJS that block non-free JavaScript code. With that in mind, has there been similar thought about web fonts that are downloaded from the web? I know they aren't pure code like JavaScript, but there are a lot of fonts that get downloaded in the background when a page loads that aren't under a free software compatible license and get executed in the browser.

Some webfont sites like Google Web Fonts carry only open fonts under an SIL or Apache 2.0 license, but there are also a lot of sites that use TypeKit which more often than not, are not under a free software compatible license, are not free, and can restrict usage.

I'm sure this has been on some of your minds.

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