[ta223]

Let's see who's watching us on stopwatching.us:

  dig MX stopwatching.us | grep -c google.com
  >>> 6

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c 'google.*\.com'
  >>> 6

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c facebook.com
  >>> 1

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c youtube.com
  >>> 0
  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c youtube-nocookie.com
  >>> 1
  hey, at least someone /thought/ about it

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c typekit.net
  >>> 1

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c twitter.com
  >>> 5

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c cloudflare.com
  >>> 3

The list goes on...

EDIT: I should note that these could be harmless <a...> links, but most aren't, and I'm too lazy to update the regexes and rerun. You get the point though.

[frank_boyd]

Seriously.

Why does every website come with 10thousand f#cking scripts loaded in the background? I hate this. Host your own goddamn js, fonts and whatnot.

[ryanSrich]

Most arguments for CDNs are based in speed. The only one from that list that would make sense to host yourself would be the video from YouTube.

[ta223]

Quite the opposite. The video -- because it's huge compared to JS, CSS, etc. -- /does/ make sense to host on YouTube. The /player/ does not belong embedded in the page though. Take a screenshot, host that on your own crummy web server, and link to YouTube, ideally with a notice to the effect of "Clicking this link will share your information with YouTube..."

[ta223]

Amen brother, amen!

[gavinpc]

As far as irony goes, I think the headline says it all:

> Rally Against Mass Surveillance Livestream [video] (stopwatching.us)