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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by nilved on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:39AM (#15515636)
In practice, this never happens. The value is certainly less than the data you're selling about your users to Google.
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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by askvictor on Friday October 20, 2017 @06:15PM (#15519469)
What data are you giving to Google (or another CDN) by loading jQuery or a font from them? What does the ToS say? Genuine question.

Edit: here's the ToS: https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/terms If you believe Google, they're not collecting anything.

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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by nilved on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:40AM (#15531418)
Don't be naive.
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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by skj on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:52AM (#15516727)
Value to whom? The site loads faster (so people like it slightly better), it's easier to maintain (less files to serve and keep track of), all for the cost of something the site owners didn't pay for in the first place.
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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by throw2016 on Friday October 20, 2017 @12:28PM (#15517050)
This is often repeated but without any data to back it up its a bit of a myth.

My tests show local resources consistently loading faster than making a link to Google. These are supposed to be cached but thing like fonts are always loaded again. Anyone can repeat this for themselves.

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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by pgeorgi on Friday October 20, 2017 @12:58PM (#15517295)
> Anyone can repeat this for themselves.

I tried, they came from the disk cache.

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