Comment on Google Chrome coders really, truly, absolutely ready to cull third-party cookies from 2024

• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any CDN worth its salt can run on your domain so that’s not an issue. The issue is that no third-party anything is pointless as links will just change from nyt.adnetwork.com to adnetwork.nyt.com. I’d rather not encourage that.

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  • LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about a CDN for JS libraries?

    What about YouTube embeds?

    What about images from Imgur?

    Why should all of this be handled by me, on my domain?

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’d tell cloudflare DNS “yo put your stuff on cloudflare-dns.mydomain.foo”. Embeds should be iframes, that is, different webpages, imgur could do the same though yes it’s overkill. Another option would imgur offering an automated API that would allow cloudflare DNS to tell it “here’s a key, please get ready to serve on imgur.mydomain.foo”.

      It can all be handled on your domain without you actually running the backing servers. It’s also insanity.

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  • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Running a CDN on your domain effectively defeats the purpose of CDN.

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• OrderedChaos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    CDNs like CloudFlare reduce load on smaller servers through caching and delivery of common assets, which reduces load times (helping to democratize sites as it’s not just big companies that can afford quick websites). CDNs also prevent DDoS attacks and can improve uptime.

    They’re pretty critical pieces of internet architecture. Not that they’re perfect, but banning all third party content from sites is kind of a baby/bathwater situation.

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    • lemmyingly@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      CDNs also reduce load on the network. Why pull a resource from a server on the opposite side of the world when a CDN on my ‘door step’ can provide a cached version of it.

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    • OrderedChaos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah. Thanks!!

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  • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The purpose of a CDN is to better cache common resources between different web sites. For example, if you’re using a Roboto font from Google CDN on your web site, just like many other web sites do, the user who previously visited other sites with such font will load your web site much faster and will spend less traffic, because he already has this font from CDN in their cache. It also means that you save money on hosting.

    If you remove CDN from the equation, you punish yourself and your users. That’s a very dumb idea. Especially when CDNs are free to use.

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