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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: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday December 15 2015, @09:28PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Tuesday December 15 2015, @09:28PM (#276818)

    Don't forget about browser fingerprinting. It generates a startlingly unique value and effectively works around any of the other measures you take.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:05PM (#276843)

    Disable javascript.
    Randomize user agent among most popular browsers.
    Block cookies and super-cookies.

    Those 3 will obfuscate fingerprinting pretty good.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:21PM (#276846)

      Tracking has gone well beyond the point where randomizing the User Agent helps. In fact, it can hurt you in many cases. Sophisticated trackers look at all headers you send, examples are the language and encoding, and what order you send them in. Changing your user agent but not the other headers to match actually makes you MORE UNIQUE.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:39PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:39PM (#276858)

        Its not just changing, it is randomizing. So it isn't just "firefox 42 pretending to be firefox 41" it is "firefox 42 pretending to be X,Y,Z,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H at different points in time." That injects enough noise that while each individual spoof is more unique, cross-referencing between them is harder.