I did not know this. However, do note that the ruling does not talk about this. It might have been a different browser altogether.

Also, it would seem to me that the responsibility for such behavior lies with Google and Google Chrome more than it does with individual webmasters.

So the fault is with Google and Chrome and not the defendant?

No, defendant made website in a way that request to Google is part of the required requests when you visit their website.

It does not ask person browsing for permission to do the request to Google. Probably there was also no mention anywhere that code of website will be connecting to a 3rd party server to pull fonts.

Your point was that Chrome sends additional tracking data specifically to Google. That is all Google’s doing.

But also let’s break down the many many things wrong with this case:

1. Your IP address is shared with many different infrastructure providers none of whom you know about: the CDN that is serving content, the server hosting providers, the TLS certificate revocation log where your browser checks if they given domain’s certificate has been revoked, the DNS server you used. It is a given that your user agent will tell half the Internet that you IP is trying to access a given website. Unless everyone hosts their own infrastructure entirely (no CDN, no external APIs, no external DNS servers, no leasing servers let alone AWS or similar), we will never not leak IP addresses. Your only solution to this is to use something like Tor.

2. Asking each and every website to create an increasingly more complicated consent form for every service they use is going to create a huge anti pattern. The cookie consent forms already suck harder than a Dyson. Why would anyone want more of that?

The correct solution is for Google to be punished for doing evil shit and to also build all the privacy controls into the user agent. This would still lead to some consent forms but at least the UI would be uniform and easy to understand. The current situation sucks bad and this case will make it worse.

That was not my point but of other user. Even though I can continue argument.

People that made website could make a website without linking to Google fonts.

All the other things you list like hosting providers are technically necessary to deliver website content or like request to TLS revocation log are implemented by browser and not by the defendant.

Yes complicated consent forms should get even more fucking annoying so companies should loose traffic if they don't think twice about using some 3rd party service.

If I have to click through 5 consent forms, I leave and company is not getting business. Other company that is caring about people data will have no need for such consent form and will be getting more business.

KEEP in mind that if you have your own cookies for your page to work like session cookies that are technically needed to login or use page, there is no consent form needed at all. People should just stop visiting pages that require consent.