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"Host your dependencies yourself"? How about "don't put so much goddamned bloat in your Web pages"?

• patates 4y ago
  Are you suggesting that all dependencies are bloat or am I misinterpreting your comment?
  • jacquesm 4y ago
    Maybe not all but quite a few of them are. On news sites for instance almost everything that gets loaded besides the text of the news item and one or two images are bloat.
    • patates 4y ago
      And why is that an argument against hosting the dependencies you have, on your own servers?
• elashri 4y ago
  I agree, most website can get rid of many JS files and will not make it less functional.
  • usrn 4y ago
    The marketing team won't have their shiny graphs though.
    • pmoriarty 4y ago
      ...and think of all the tracking and fingerprinting they'd have to sacrifice.
  • nerdponx 4y ago
    In a lot of cases, removing the JS would make the site more functional. Imagine how much nicer online shopping would be if you had mostly-static HTML pages.
  • Veen 4y ago
    Functional for whom? Most websites exist to make money for the people who make them, including news sites. All that crap serves the publisher's functional goals.
    • elashri 4y ago
      I meant functional from technical side. But I get your point, It is just a wish more than a realistic view