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Let's see who's watching us on stopwatching.us:

  dig MX stopwatching.us | grep -c google.com
  >>> 6

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c 'google.*\.com'
  >>> 6

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c facebook.com
  >>> 1

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c youtube.com
  >>> 0
  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c youtube-nocookie.com
  >>> 1
  hey, at least someone /thought/ about it

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c typekit.net
  >>> 1

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c twitter.com
  >>> 5

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c cloudflare.com
  >>> 3
The list goes on...

EDIT: I should note that these could be harmless <a...> links, but most aren't, and I'm too lazy to update the regexes and rerun. You get the point though.




Seriously.

Why does every website come with 10thousand f#cking scripts loaded in the background? I hate this. Host your own goddamn js, fonts and whatnot.


Most arguments for CDNs are based in speed. The only one from that list that would make sense to host yourself would be the video from YouTube.


Quite the opposite. The video -- because it's huge compared to JS, CSS, etc. -- /does/ make sense to host on YouTube. The /player/ does not belong embedded in the page though. Take a screenshot, host that on your own crummy web server, and link to YouTube, ideally with a notice to the effect of "Clicking this link will share your information with YouTube..."


Amen brother, amen!


As far as irony goes, I think the headline says it all:

> Rally Against Mass Surveillance Livestream [video] (stopwatching.us)




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