Timeline for Why is Goodreads connecting to Google when I visit their website?
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| Dec 17, 2019 at 14:18 | comment | added | Brian | Note that GoodReads supports Google login. This requires the use of google libraries and Google cookies. Most implementations of third-party login unconditionally load third-party libraries. It would be a bit nicer, privacy-wise, to do so on demand. However, most third-party login systems don't support this. | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 7:39 | vote | accept | 7_R3X | ||
| Dec 12, 2019 at 23:40 | comment | added | reed |
@dandavis, wouldn't the same be true of googleapis.com? That's a very common domain too, and even if it wasn't, it would become common as soon as everybody started to use it on every website. Like it happens for fonts.googleapis.com, used virtually everywhere today.
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| Dec 12, 2019 at 21:13 | comment | added | dandavis |
loading from google.com ensures a likely hot (cached) DNS lookup, reducing overhead and increasing performance. nothing sinister.
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| Dec 12, 2019 at 18:56 | history | answered | reed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |