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My apologies, I should've prefaced that my experience with CDNs come as a developer, but not for LibreTube. Think of it more as an overarching explanation of what a CDN is, and not for how LibreTube makes use of it as I don't possess that information.

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network, and is essentially a network of servers that act as distributed caches to make accessing various assets faster for the end user. Say you have an application that needs to load a bunch of images and scripts, instead of going to the home server to fetch all that content (which could be on the other side of the world from you) the idea is that you save time by accessing those assets via a nearby CDN, reducing the chance of routing errors etc.

There are downsides to CDNs as well. End users might have privacy settings that block CDNs, they may cost money to make use of, might make deployment a bit more complicated. I my biggest issue with CDNs is that they may not respect the end user's privacy, so if I develop an application and I really care about my users' privacy, I'd likely endeavour to not make use of a CDN as I can't guarantee that the CDN won't be a weak link in my chain. It doesn't matter how much I respect people's privacy if the CDN stores logs and tracks my users.

There are prison labour protections?

What does Iran have to do with things?

I feel this. It is satisfying, but it's not really productive.

Well they do charge particularly hard for SSDs as well. They've found a way to eat the cake twice.

Companies primarily make decisions to maximise the profitability of someone and it's never the consumer.

I think the spines are part of the background, a bush or a tree or something. Also saw an elephant. Elephant standing in front of a bush.

Likely born from frustration. It sucks knowing that the future you’re working towards is likely one you’ll never get to experience.

A small step in the right direction is still a step.

Let’s remember that the rich will have ways of making this happen even without it being legal. You don’t think that the criminalisation of abortion in various U.S. states actually affects the rich, right?