Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D...
by thedufer on Thursday October 29, 2015 @11:55PM
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> What would happen to your website (or millions of websites) if one of the CDN's that you rely on started quietly issuing evil code to a few, targeted users? Would you notice? Would your users?
Most of ours would. Subresource Integrity means that all of our Firefox and Chrome users would get mostly blank pages if our CDN tried to pull anything. It's really hard to justify dropping our CDN when they do so much for our load times for people outside of the US (where our servers are located).
> Ask yourself; what's the profit model?
Well, we pay them, so I kinda thought it was obvious. I suppose they could be selling data as well, but it doesn't seem like a great strategy to endanger so much of their userbase when there's already a clear and profitable monetization model.
Most of ours would. Subresource Integrity means that all of our Firefox and Chrome users would get mostly blank pages if our CDN tried to pull anything. It's really hard to justify dropping our CDN when they do so much for our load times for people outside of the US (where our servers are located).
> Ask yourself; what's the profit model?
Well, we pay them, so I kinda thought it was obvious. I suppose they could be selling data as well, but it doesn't seem like a great strategy to endanger so much of their userbase when there's already a clear and profitable monetization model.