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Only if you go through big, centralized cloud providers fronting the traffic. You're just replacing your ISP with the the CDN.
by the8472 8y ago
Only if you go through big, centralized cloud providers fronting the traffic. You're just replacing your ISP with the the CDN.
- Spivak 8y agoThe person who wrote your application stood it up using that CDN though. There are two parties we're concerned about: you and the entity you're communicating with. You trust your device and the entity, and the entity trusts the infrastructure and services they're using. Everything else is the enemy. So moving the barrier to a CDN which the entity trusts is actually an improvement over intermediate ISPs which neither of you trust.
- the8472 8y agoThey may simply not care and only "trust" the CDN in so far as it bypasses local resolvers. I.e. they might be using it for reasons not aligned with my interests and not vet the CDN at all.