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Does using Cloudflare's cdnjs compromise privacy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by MoonMelon@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Prefacing by saying I'm a total noob to webdev.

I'm trying to move my personal portfolio site off of Squarespace and onto some sort of static hosting. Since I know nothing, I'm cobbling together hugo templates and using LightBox2 to show image galleries. The blog I'm referencing includes LightBox2 using this:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha256-CSXorXvZcTkaix6Yvo6HppcZGetbYMGWSFlBw8HfCJo=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lightbox2/2.11.1/js/lightbox.min.js" integrity="sha256-CtKylYan+AJuoH8jrMht1+1PMhMqrKnB8K5g012WN5I=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

I would prefer to not subject people viewing my page to any external tracking if I can avoid it. My page has zero tracking/analytics for this reason. I briefly tried downloading LightBox2 and directly including it instead, and was able to get it working mostly, but some things were broken that I would need to debug. Before I do that I was wondering, is this even a problem? Is including stuff from cloudflare cdn like this sketchy? It's possible I'm being overly paranoid but I have no idea.

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[–] seang96@spgrn.com 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

How would things break from including it yourself? Just download the file from the links in your post and include them on your webserver it shouldn't require any code changes beyond that. You also never know if they would take down an old version or if some outage will occur so I'd personally rather host them instead of relying on additional servers to work.

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Something about how hugo is cooking everything down into a /public directory is breaking the overlay images (like the next/prev arrow). I'm sure I can track it down but since I'm pretty inexperienced this will take me some time (at cursory glance all the paths seemed good, so I'm not sure why it's broken).

I would also prefer to host it myself so maybe I should just do this...

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 2 months ago

Ah I didn't think of the image references! Yeah probably better off downloading the whole library when it requires the other assets too. Its likely soft linking at point of the css file and you'd need assets paths stored in reference to the CSS file.

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