Oh sure! I guess we're talking about different things. In your example, Google is providing you a service, and they're serving the file. I was talking about us

Oh sure! I guess we're talking about different things. In your example, Google is providing you a service, and they're serving the file. I was talking about using 3rd party file hosting services like cdnjs.com and unpkg.com It's gotten so bizarre that highly popular libs (even Facebook's React!!! )will recommend you hotlink these third party sites rather than give you a zip file to download and host yourself.