Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
by crazygringo on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:20PM
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> Nobody seemed to think it was hard to host a file before this came along, just as nobody thought it was hard to have a blog before Medium.
Huh? Who ever said the main point of a CDN is to make things easier? It's always been in order to provide a faster end-user experience.
> ...but it's also not easy to say you're really improving the performance of something if there is any possibility you'll need to do an additional DNS lookup -- one of the greatest "long tails" in performance.
But common CDN's will virtually already have their IP address cached while you're browsing anyways.
Caching certainly has nuance to it as you say, but I think you're being particularly ungenerous in claiming that CDN's are a scam and that you're representing "reality".
Businesses measure these things in reality with analytics, and they also almost always analyze the worst 5% or 1% of requests as well, not just the "median".
CDN's are a big boost to performance in many cases. Or at least, until now (for shared files). You shouldn't be so dismissive.
Huh? Who ever said the main point of a CDN is to make things easier? It's always been in order to provide a faster end-user experience.
> ...but it's also not easy to say you're really improving the performance of something if there is any possibility you'll need to do an additional DNS lookup -- one of the greatest "long tails" in performance.
But common CDN's will virtually already have their IP address cached while you're browsing anyways.
Caching certainly has nuance to it as you say, but I think you're being particularly ungenerous in claiming that CDN's are a scam and that you're representing "reality".
Businesses measure these things in reality with analytics, and they also almost always analyze the worst 5% or 1% of requests as well, not just the "median".
CDN's are a big boost to performance in many cases. Or at least, until now (for shared files). You shouldn't be so dismissive.