so i have all 3rd party domains blocked by default in ublock and it is surprising how many websites use public CDNs for js libraries

i don't like it

yeah im *that* person. i used to use noscript

the only argument that stands up to scrutiny is that it's convenient to just copy and paste a url from cdnjs

the obvious argument is usually "low latency!" but, you probably are calling those libraries in your own code right? either that code is loaded from your own server and is still the bottleneck, or you have your own private CDN distribution in which case: just use that one, you're already paying for it and it has an actual SLA and a privacy policy

at least i hope it does 😓

one exception is libraries that just augment the DOM and that you don't call from javascript at all like... idk, videojs and friends probably do this right? convert every <video> tag with a special property into their player?

this is extremely good design btw, but that's another rant entirely

another argument is "stuff will be in the browser cache from the previous site that needed that lib" and, lets be fucking real. every website uses a different version of jquery