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This feels contrived. Rarely do I, as a brand or content creator, want it circulating without my control. It doesn’t make business sense.
by cflat 6y ago
This feels contrived. Rarely do I, as a brand or content creator, want it circulating without my control. It doesn’t make business sense.
- spankalee 6y agoIt's not without your control. You don't have to use bundles or signed exchanges. You can use bundles without signed exchanges. You can bundle only some resources, and leave plenty of things like dynamic content, comments, ads, etc. unbundled. It's a file format, there will be lots of uses.
- Spivak 6y agoThis feels like such a weird stance. I can’t imagine someone saying something to the effect of “I don’t want my DNS records just circulating without my control.” This isn’t like AP giving CNN republishing rights, this is getting a magazine from the stand at the convenience store rather than having going to the Condé Nast corporate HQ. Like it’s your site, exactly as it would be if it was delivered by your server just delivered by someone who already had a copy on hand rather than fetching a new one every time. This is what HTTP proxies used to do, what DNS caches and browsers still do. TLS broke web caches because TLS secured the connection instead of the content.
- jariel 6y agoIt's not weird to reject arbitrary complexity. The most important issues is the 'lack of value' - not anything else. Complexity compounds to imbue cost geometrically, we don't need stuff 'because', we need stuff that solves real problems.
- Spivak 6y agoFor sure, but the big value prop is better speed and less load on your own servers when your content primarily comes from Twitter, Google, IG, Facebook, Reddit, etc. Small sites can use this to not need a CDN and avoid the hug of death. If it doesn’t come with a benefit to you then it’s all good.
- cflat 6y agoDNS is not content. HTTP caches were always problematic from a business perspective. Great for downloading large binaries (installs) but problematic when they don’t expire as expected, or if content needs to change for contractual reasons.
- joshuamorton 6y agoTell that to cloudflare. It's not like you're forced to cache things if it doesn't work for your business case.
- Spivak 6y agoI mean you’re the one who gets to decide how long the signature is valid for just like you can choose your TTL in DNS. And a malicious cache can’t continue to serve stale content because browsers will reject it. You get a hard guarantee that your TTL will be respected.