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Re:Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites by smaudet on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @04:06PM (#40792982)
> Does it even reduce latency that much

Absolutely:

https://wondernetwork.com/pings/

Stockholm <-> Tokyo is at least 400ms here, anytime you have multi-national sites having a CDN is important. For your local city, not so much (and of course you won't even see it locally).

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Re:Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites by bawolff on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @06:22PM (#40794350)
I understand that ping times are different when geolocated. My point was that in fairly typical scenarios (worst cases are going to be worse) it would be hidden by backend latency since the fetch could be concurrent with link headers or http 103. Devil in details of course.
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