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Google Chrome coders really, truly, absolutely ready to cull third-party cookies from 2024 (www.theregister.com)
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[–] OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 13 points 10 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.

[–] OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Ah. Thanks!!

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 10 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.