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by eek04_ 1929 days ago
> Also, never use Google’s CDN for loading fonts or icons — always self-host them. The CDNs are used to track your users.

Any evidence of this claim? Also, given that the Google CDNs allow caching for 24h, it seems extremely ineffective even if it was done.

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Yeah, seconding this. The main benefit of using a Google CDN is that there is a huge chance it's already cached on the client device. Which would mean that there is less useful tracking information.
Browsers are moving to block cross-site caching though.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-pro...