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by chronomex 2226 days ago
They serve everything in-house and are their own AS; this allows them to provide stronger guarantees of reader privacy than sites that use a CDN.
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> They serve everything in-house and are their own AS

Forgive me, but what is an AS?

Autonomous System. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)

An AS is an entity significant enough to be reasoned about at the BGP level.

Thanks!