# Issues with the always-on Google as a provider

**URL:** <https://forum.fontba.se/t/issues-with-the-always-on-google-as-a-provider/1973>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Created:** [June 5, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/issues-with-the-always-on-google-as-a-provider/1973 "2026-06-05T11:58:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![nclm](https://forum.fontba.se/user_avatar/forum.fontba.se/nclm/32/885_2.png) [@nclm](https://forum.fontba.se/u/nclm)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.fontba.se/t/issues-with-the-always-on-google-as-a-provider/1973/1 "2026-06-05T11:58:54Z")

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Since some recent update there’s a Providers section in the sidebar, with Google and FontMarket.

Many of the fonts in my local library are freely licensed (SIL-OFL), and as it turns out Google collects many of those on their platform too, so they have a lot of the fonts that I have as well.

I’d like to report two bugs/shortcomings:

1. When a local font is activated, it seems that sometimes the Google version is activated instead (green dot and count next to Google, /Providers/Google/ paths in the font styles). I never explicitly asked to get anything from Google, I have those fonts locally.  
Please always favour the local versions, or have options about that.

2. There is seemingly no way to deactivate Google as a provider, like it is possible for FontMarket through [https://web.fontba.se/account/providers](https://web.fontba.se/account/providers). I will never used Google as a provider, so I’d like to remove it, especially if it can avoid issue like the point above.

Thanks!

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