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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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submitted 1 year ago by tourist@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I fucking hate the modern web

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, but they don’t just load jquery themselves… for each site “feature” they pull dynamically from a different CDN, loading the same code over and over again to call different functions.

And all it takes is for ONE of their CDNs to get poisoned and suddenly they’re serving malware.