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Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday December 15 2015, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the it'll-never-get-out-of-beta dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Google has quietly started offering Google Cloud CDN service, a new content-delivery network (CDN) that should appeal to independent developers who want their applications to load quickly.

For its "alpha" release, Google is now accepting applications from people who want to try the new service, which is limited in geographical availability. More locations will be added when the service becomes generally available.

"Google Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) uses Google's globally distributed edge caches to cache HTTP(S) Load Balanced content close to your users," the product description states. "Caching content at the edges of Google's network provides faster delivery of content to your users while reducing the load on your servers."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @08:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @08:38PM (#276794)

    I wonder if this is an end-run around Privacy Badger [eff.org].

    Privacy badger wor4ks by watching for, then silently blocking "tracking domains". However, if Google is providing Content distribution services, they can suddenly track you without specific tracking domains. Much like how facebook and Google Analytics track you on most websites unless you take precautions.

    And HTTPS won't help, because like cloudflare, they will have a copy of the certificate.

    I think moving to CJDNS [wikipedia.org] may be the best way out. As a bonus, you get IPv6. CJDNS is not ready for wide deployment though. You are encouraged to set up links by actually talking to people. (weird, I know.)