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by dedward 5877 days ago
Curious - considering that these companies pay for this content and bandwidth - are they actually offerring it up for public use, or is this just leeching off them?

The speed benefit is probably non-existant for something small like jquery - some simple far-future expires headers and proper cache management and site engineering will take care of that.

Further - including scripts from foreign sources in your pages also means you are trusting them to be secure - if that script is compromised, every site using it could be hijacked.

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I know Google offers it for free: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/