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I like decentraleyes > Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery. https://decentraleyes.org/ https://decentraleyes.org/

toastal 4y ago
It's basically unmaintained and CDNs for this style of are not useful anymore... https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/public-cdn-risks/ https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/public-cdn-risks/
- divarre 4y ago
  Genuine question, how is it unmaintained? It was last updated 4 months ago: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes... https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes Is it not still relevant as long as all sites don't choose to host their own dependencies, as recommended in the article you linked?
  - toastal 4y ago
    The libs need to be manually maintained. Literally the first one I looked at, jQuery (https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/tree/master/resources/jquery https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/tree/master/res...), and we can take a look over at NPM (https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery) and see the latest version, 3.6.0, was released on 2021-03-02 and is still not shipped with Decentraleyes. This add-on shaped the privacy-positive landscape for browsers upon it's release, but the features have be made obsolete with the latest browser isolation and that most entities have migrated to bundled JavaScript and off of CDNs.
    - divarre 4y ago
      Thanks for the clarification!
jan__j 4y ago
LocalCDN is an actually maintained fork of this. https://www.localcdn.org/ https://www.localcdn.org/
- SquareWheel 4y ago
  I like the idea of LocalCDN not necessarily for privacy reasons, but for performance. Now that shared browser caches are a thing of the past, it feels incredibly wasteful how often we have to download common libraries and fonts. I'd like to keep 500MB or so of data locally and just have it replace the network requests when they're made. I'd be curious how much data that might end up saving after a month or year of browsing.
  - its_bbq 4y ago
    Sounds like you could be fingerprinted by what's in your cache
    - SquareWheel 4y ago
      Only that I have an extension installed. Presumably the libraries cached would be the same for all users. So assuming an install base of >10,000, I'm not particularly bothered about it. I'm more interested in techniques for faster page loading.
- Grimburger 4y ago
  Thankyou, I will check this out.

toastal 4y ago

It's basically unmaintained and CDNs for this style of are not useful anymore... https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/public-cdn-risks/ https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/public-cdn-risks/

divarre 4y ago
Genuine question, how is it unmaintained? It was last updated 4 months ago: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes... https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes Is it not still relevant as long as all sites don't choose to host their own dependencies, as recommended in the article you linked?
- toastal 4y ago
  The libs need to be manually maintained. Literally the first one I looked at, jQuery (https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/tree/master/resources/jquery https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/tree/master/res...), and we can take a look over at NPM (https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery) and see the latest version, 3.6.0, was released on 2021-03-02 and is still not shipped with Decentraleyes. This add-on shaped the privacy-positive landscape for browsers upon it's release, but the features have be made obsolete with the latest browser isolation and that most entities have migrated to bundled JavaScript and off of CDNs.
  - divarre 4y ago
    Thanks for the clarification!

jan__j 4y ago

LocalCDN is an actually maintained fork of this. https://www.localcdn.org/ https://www.localcdn.org/

SquareWheel 4y ago
I like the idea of LocalCDN not necessarily for privacy reasons, but for performance. Now that shared browser caches are a thing of the past, it feels incredibly wasteful how often we have to download common libraries and fonts. I'd like to keep 500MB or so of data locally and just have it replace the network requests when they're made. I'd be curious how much data that might end up saving after a month or year of browsing.
- its_bbq 4y ago
  Sounds like you could be fingerprinted by what's in your cache
  - SquareWheel 4y ago
    Only that I have an extension installed. Presumably the libraries cached would be the same for all users. So assuming an install base of >10,000, I'm not particularly bothered about it. I'm more interested in techniques for faster page loading.
Grimburger 4y ago
Thankyou, I will check this out.