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In regards to not tracking users...integrating a http request to Google for JQuery, is still tracking users.

I always find this ironic about these articles don't track your users, or prism is watching, let's use mailvelope, some of these pages that is promoting privacy, integrates google analytics, have a share button, or some type of off server request.

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The Google CDN serves its scripts from a cookie-less domain and with an aggressive far-future expires header. Best case, a given user may only need to make one request to Google per year for a given script, and even when they do there aren't any tracking cookies to make that request worth much at all in terms of tracking. You're right that Analytics isn't great for privacy, but their AJAX Libraries CDN is configured in a diametrically opposite way.

That is why I said, I am thinking about not serving scripts from CDNs, at least not from public CDNs.

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