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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by TheCoreh on Monday August 17, 2015 @06:56AM (#10072284)
Sadly this would break a lot of websites and apps, since a lot of scripts are served from the Google (and other) CDNs these days. A whitelist of sorts could help though.
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by cm2187 on Monday August 17, 2015 @07:18AM (#10072342)
The problem with a whitelist is that tracking and malicious websites would just move their scripts to these CDNs.

It would certainly break compatibility with some websites, but so did removing flash or silverlight support, or introducing popup blockers before that. And with http2, scripts hosted on third party CDN are bound to disappear.

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