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Does this mean that all CDN hosting of libraries, etc. will now be semi pointless for optimization?

• joshspankit 6y ago
  Good question
• zinekeller 6y ago
  Yes, it will be. The main reason, as all things, comes down to breaking human trust: tracking companies may send a small picture/small JS (that only contains a unique ID) that is randomly generated but is continously cached by the browser, effectively circumventing cookie policy.
• _flux 6y ago
  I suppose it's still possible that a CDN-hosted file is served faster than a file from your server. And you may need to pay for that traffic. But, basically, yes.
• folmar 6y ago
  It already mostly is, it is a odd hit to be using exactly the same library from the same CDN as you do. But people also use it for being faster than their main server as CDNs put more effort to be fast than mom-and-pop.