Maybe web devs should more carefully consider how much crap third party scripts and resources inject into their sites, rather than caring about a tiny bit of convenience.
That’s absurd. That’s like saying car owners should be held responsible for how safe their car is to drive. It makes unrealistic assumptions about the competency of the end user to judge such things.
No it’s not. Rather it’s more like drivers should be held responsible for how they drive their car.
I’m not even saying responsible— just they cant reasonably complain when they drive somewhere new and they don’t like the road conditions.
Your original analogy is more like this:
If a person's computer got hacked unintentionally, they shouldn’t be responsible for the damage it caused to others.
I’m talking at the meta level. The laws can start nationalizing every company. But I think it shouldn’t. The law can put the burden on developers — but shouldn’t.
I shouldn’t have to abide by some stupid rules to plug my server onto the Internet and listen on port 80.
Your right. The best way is to filter at the firewall level everything Google, Microsoft, Cloudfare, Facebook, Twitter etc.
The world would be a better place.
Now try to do this on Windows 10 :)
Note that fonts from Google Fonts can be self-hosted which resolves that problem. It's a little bit more work to set up, but it does resolve this issue well, while also being slightly more efficient for the end-user (assuming that you've got a decent CDN setup).
That's what I was trying to say, I think I got excited and used too many double negatives...
Theoretically, it should be more efficient hosting these things yourself - there are fewer origins to request, which means fewer lookups, fewer connections, etc.
You can put this in your build steps that it downloads everything; I have that and prefer it anyway; companies ‘tend’ to suddenly remove, change or switch things off or get hacked.
