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by joey_bananas 5749 days ago
Lots and lots and lots of sites fail because they depend on jquery hosted by google.
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Encosia 5749 days ago
Google's jQuery CDN is hosted on a separate domain (that doesn't share cookies with Google services like AdWords, AdSense, and Analytics). Blocking Google.com doesn't block their jQuery CDN, nor is there a good reason to block their cookie-less CDN domain.
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gthank 5749 days ago
The CDN is a different subdomain; can Adblock not handle this?
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lwhi 5749 days ago
Interesting, that makes their altruistic (CDN) hosting seem slightly more strategic.
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japherwocky 5748 days ago
I wish people would explain their downvotes more (I just bumped you from 0).

Is it too short? Or not insightful enough? Or.. do you disagree with his opinion?

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Encosia 5748 days ago
My guess would be it's because the comment was factually incorrect.

From an ad-blocking perspective, the Google AJAX Libraries CDN and the rest of Google's properties are in no way related. The Google API, Libraries CDN, and supporting documentation is the only thing on the googleapis.com domain.

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ucentric 5748 days ago
Everything Google do is strategic and usually has little if anything to do with their publicly stated aims. For example, Android, recaptcha, OpenID...
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