HTTP request issue (fonts) > worth checking if you use bunny CDN, stream or other services from Bunny

I’ve been deep in performance lately.

When you run tools like Perfmatters, it’s easy to accidentally break things like Fluent Community or Boards, so I’m being extra careful.

On the compliance side, I never rely on Google Fonts.

They trigger external API requests, hurt performance, and create unnecessary GDPR headaches.

Fonts always local.

Now here’s the issue.

Bunny recently released a feature to rewrite site fonts (great idea, meant to avoid Google Fonts).

But even with:

• fonts hosted locally, and
• Bunny’s font rewrite disabled,

some themes or plugins still inject CSS that triggers requests to fonts.bunny.net.

Result:

• duplicated fonts
• unnecessary external requests
• worse performance

And the worst part: it’s happening silently.

I know this isn’t 100% Fluent-related.

But I haven’t found a clean way to stop those font requests once the CSS initiator is there.

⚠️ Special heads-up to Manuel Müller and anyone using Thrive Themes:

it’s one of the setups where this seems to happen when combined with Bunny services.

If someone has cracked a proper fix for this, I’m all ears.