Frankly I'm surprised jquery even allowed this to begin with. Now there will be sites that rely on this tha break, some of which won't be fixed for ages (if ever).
I guess I shouldn't be but I'm still surprised people would even do this given that Google s offering the service for free. Hotlinking has always been antisocial.
Agreed. I'll bet a significant portion of it is coming from cut-n-pasted html where the users don't even realise they're using hotlinked javascript, and have probably never even heard of jquery (and, unfortunately, are spectacularly unlikely to hear about this change on jquery's hotlinking policy).
I guess I shouldn't be but I'm still surprised people would even do this given that Google s offering the service for free. Hotlinking has always been antisocial.