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Extensions that act like a local CDN. Page loads faster, more privacy, etc.

https://www.localcdn.org/ (fork of decentraleyes, with many more resources)

Interesting, I was already using DecentralEyes. Do you know why the fork happened? What policy does DecentralEyes keep that LocalCDN extends or violates?

edit: will be sticking with the original, looks like the fork maintainer made no effort to work upstream first, which is a very bad look for what is essentially a piece of security software. https://gitlab.com/nobody42/localcdn/-/issues/5

I found out about localCDN recently, commented on this subject, and got this response from the author:

https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN/issues/51#issuecomment-...

I haven't gone searching for a PR yet and didn't think to do so beforehand (all made more complicated by both projects' repos having moved locations at least once recently).

Update: searched for a PR, didn't find it.

Initial commit[1] in the LocalCDN repo is Feb 2020; I don't see any PRs on either of the Decentraleyes repos in early 2020 or late 2019. Of course, it's still possible the author reached out

[1] For some reason, the project does not continue the git history from Decentraleyes. For me this is a red flag (much easier to sneak in a change this way) and I will continue using Decentraleyes.

localCDN has more resources than Decentraleyes. It also has very important resources like Google Fonts, some cloudflare resources etc, none of which were present in Decentraleyes (the last time I checked)

> will be sticking with the original

It's your choice. The fork is better. The maintainer seems a bit more active (more updates) and extremely pro-privacy (I concluded this from his home page and extension settings)

I was thinking about switching from decentraleyes too, but I'm hesitant to install a "can access all sites" extension that hasn't been vetted ("recommended") by Mozilla.

LocalCDN is the most offline extension I have seen.

It even opens donation pages locally, instead of opening the author's website. He says ''I think it is better if your public IP address is rarely listed in any server log files.''

localCDN looks super interesting. It works with Chrome partially and fully with Firefox. I'm curious, is there any good native tool to replace localCDN, uBlock, uMatrix ( resources concern ). Btw, thanks for pointing out localCDN

I don't know any replacements, but localCDN can generate rulesets for uBlock Origin and uMatrix if you have configured it too hard (had mode,etc)

You must enable the rulesets. It's very easy and a one time job. To generate them, go to LocalCDN settings and select your adblocker.

I use decentraleyes and like it, but although it has a ton of content, much was outdated and there were no updates. It would also be nice to be able to add resources yourself.

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