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by dathinab 2066 days ago
I'm not sure how far this is technical possible but for people which are on so slow/low bandwidth connections that they have a noticeable drawback because of this change I believe there is a better solution:

An extension keeping widely used versions of libraries preloaded as well as a small db of CDN/urls so that it can serve the pre-loaded libraries instead of the CDN ones when possible. This also could do thinks like collapse foobar-latest and foobar-X.Y.Z (X.Y.Z == latest) and could force load a different version with security patches. I.e. it would act kinda like a linux package manager for a limited part of common libraries.

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Decentraleyes does exactly this.
Check out LocalCDN for a fork with actively-updated CDNs.