Possibility to not have dependency on googleapis.com (China problem)

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As you may know in China some websites are not accessible, and the domain googleapis is one of them (note that it vary a lot from times and province so something which is not accessible today in Shanghai is maybe accessible in Beijing, and maybe tomorrow it will be the opposite)

The bad things is that sometimes the connection is not blocked directly but will instead never get a reply, making askbot to load for ages, waiting for googleapis.com and fonts.google.com to timeout and only then askbot's html will be visible

By using some "noscript" plugin on firefox to block this two domains, the website load fine

So I think it would be great if

one can choose not to use it
in the case one still decide to use, maybe by doing some tricks in the way these resources are loaded, to not make it block the load process

so that I dunno if that will "block" some features, but at least we'll be able to see the content, which is already better than nothing