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		gcb0 on July 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google That's silly. I block it (via the someonewhocares host file) and not it works but makes browsing faster. Only downside is when i click done actual useful advertising result on gsearch i get a 404 :)

pyre on July 14, 2013 [–]

How is it silly? When someone loads jQuery from Google, and their site depends on jQuery, do you expect the site to still work when you block Google's CDN?

gcb0 on July 15, 2013 | [–]

no major provider serve ads and jquery/yui mirrors from the same CNAME...

i know your example is moot because google doesn't

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