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I wonder if there is a downside to letting Google act as a CDN for Web Fonts and common javascript libraries. /tinfoil hat Common resources distributed to brow

by recuter 14y ago

I wonder if there is a downside to letting Google act as a CDN for Web Fonts and common javascript libraries. /tinfoil hat Common resources distributed to browser caches everywhere is an attractive proposition but you're also giving Google a lot of data you might not want.

TillE 14y ago
Wouldn't the browser cache make that a fairly ineffective tracking method? The odd bit of data about some websites you visit doesn't particularly benefit Google, not nearly as much as the data you give them when you directly use their services. I'd be sure to keep local backups of every font and library you point to just in case something breaks, though.
dangrossman 14y ago
With Google Analytics, AdSense and DoubleClick, Google already has tags on 88.4% of all web domains. http://knowprivacy.org/ http://knowprivacy.org/
alexchamberlain 14y ago
It would be nice if we could develop a way of caching the same file across different domains.