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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by annabellish on Friday October 20, 2017 @06:40AM (#15514764)
What's wrong with any of those things?
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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday October 20, 2017 @07:00AM (#15514821)
Libraries are probably fine, but pulling them from Google means that Google can track you
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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by homero on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:32AM (#15515219)
Probably but those domains are meant to be cookie less for speed
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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by nerdponx on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:51AM (#15515330)
They still know which IP address is loading it. And I do often see cookies on CDNs in uBlock Matrix.
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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by samirillian on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:32AM (#15515223)
Don't know how I never put this together. Good (cynical) explanation for Google fonts.
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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by Crontab on Friday October 20, 2017 @10:38AM (#15516108)
Don’t mistake their generosity for generosity.
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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by Drdrdrq on Friday October 20, 2017 @04:15PM (#15518816)
This is not cynical, it's realistic. After all, tracking users is closely tied to their main source of income. It is not a coincidence that most pages use Google Analytics.
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