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by majika
4129 days ago
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Aside your abstract commentary here is a defense of your argument that the web will lose something valuable if more sites stop directing their visitors' browsers to send requests to advertizing companies and CDNs for resources. I think that's baloney - the web will be better off for it, because it will be faster, more private, and simpler. No semantic information is lost (except for the semantic information in Google's profile graph - let me play my violin). There's no balkanization, because there's no noticeable difference to end-users (which is why cross-site requests for things like fonts is so nefarious). The web would provide all the value it currently does, because that value is founded entirely on linking. You seem to maintain that wanting to achieve private browsing is "paranoid". Can you expand on this belief? |
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There are lots of other promising ways that people compose Web services beyond this issue with fonts, services like Stripe or Geo, technologies like the upcoming Web Components, embedding media like Tweets, where I don't particularly think we will be served well by a paranoid model.
Your model of blue-links-only almost entirely prevents the kinds of service composition that almost all sites engage in these days.
It's also not clear it's a net win for speed or security. CDN sites are likely significantly more hardened than most regular sites, and most regular sites don't necessarily scale, or don't want to pay to scale, to reach top performance. That means people cut corners.