I find localcdn to be a better option, it's a fork of Decentraleyes.
Make sure to read the directions, though, to integrate properly with uBO/uMatrix.
Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
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Re: Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
#42After clicking through several more times and ending up in a gitlab wiki, this seems to be how it works: > It comes bundled with a fair amount of commonly used files, and serves them locally whenever a site tries to fetch them from a delivery network. The docs, both on the site that is linked to and on the wiki is extremely bare bones, but the gist of it is that a CDN can track you through the `referer` header of the…
Would a simpler solution be to just drop referrers from CDN requests? It would probably require fewer updates to the package itself
Decentraleyes already does this.
> What does it do to protect me when it has no choice but to allow a request?
> Even if a resource is not locally available, Decentraleyes offers improved protection by stripping optional headers from intercepted CDN-requests. This keeps specific data, such as what page you are on, from reaching delivery networks. Whitelisting a domain does not affect this measure.
https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/wikis/Frequentl...
Re: Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
#43It's a cool idea, even if just for performance reasons. So many things come from CDNs these days, we may as well start shopping the common ones ahead of time. But recently I learned something unexpected. Lots of extensions are terrible with their resources. On a page targeting tech-savvy people, around 1% of requests has some extension content injected into the website which requests an external font file. (info come…
> "even if just for performance reasons" I don't think it matters for performance because it's cached in the browser anyway... So the purpose of the extension is privacy.
I may be wrong, but I don't think the browser caches CDN requests, at least per site...
So this might be a performance gain too
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29704811/why-isnt-the-br...
Re: Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
#44Decentraleyes breaks sites that use subresource integrity, which is why I sadly needed to stop using it, until I find time to land a PR.
Re: Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
#45> To learn more, or to download and install the free browser extension: Edit: After re-reading this multiple times, I don't think this wording is helpful. There should be a transparent description of what this extension offers before users navigate to download and install options.
Yeah exactly... It just says how to install it. Not what it is or why it should want it ;)
It should have a description on their own site, not rely on one in an app store. I wouldn't even click on that until I'm convinced I want it.
In fact I didn't, I saw the page, was like "???" and then went to the comments here to read what this was about ;)
But yeah I always wondered what Google does with all these calls to the javascript libraries they're hosting... I bet they milk them for data somehow. It's a good effort but I'm not sure I'll install it as I already have so many plugins in Firefox that it constantly complains about slow startup.
Re: Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
#46Another of the million huge enhancements that could be built natively into browsers if browsers weren’t intentionally stuck in the 90s by advertising/tracking companies.
I wonder when we’ll see a real browser alternative that includes no-brainer features like bundling the most common libraries in local forever-cache by SRI hash.
Re: Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was thinking the same but then browsers have caches and most of the CDNs (e.g. jsdeliver) set max-age to a year and immutable so you're only tracked once
For privacy reasons caches are per site these days. So even if you visit 1 page using a CDN and it is cached, if you visit a different website using the same CDN it will be downloaded again.
Ironically this degrades privacy as the CDN can track you everywhere..
Re: Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
#48Would be nice to see this published to the Microsoft Edge Addons store - https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons
Re: Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
#49I've used Decentraleyes for a while now and it works great. I would actually like to see it—or more specifically, the idea—integrated into browsers. It would improve privacy, (potentially) security, and speed at the cost of disk space.
Was Opera's "Turbo" mode not a similar feature? A feature launched in the early mobile/late dail-up days. Albeit the proxy CDN was provided by Opera. It would take proxy JPEGs, compress them more, serve them from an edge node. It don't think it was marketed as a privacy feature but mostly bandwidth/speed. But in theory if you trust Opera, you'd get more privacy?
Re: Decentraleyes – Local CDN Emulation
#50I like the idea of the extension, but the implementation in lacking. According to the project's gitlab[1], there's only a dozen or so libraries are actually being served. It doesn't seem to cache google web fonts, for instance. Some sibling comments mentioned LocalCDN, which has more libraries and also includes fontawesome, but still lacks google fonts. [1] https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/tree/master/res…
We should all be turning off web fonts anyway.