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A main selling point of using CDNs for commonly used assets (like Google fonts) is that lots of websites use the same URL, so the browser is likely to have the asset in cache already from a previous use on another site. Makes the site faster and uses less bandwidth.

I don't think there is a solution right now. Maybe browsers can stop sending these headers to well known CDN domains by default.



Browsers do not share these caches due to privacy concerns. There is no benefit to it being in a central vs your own cdn.


Ah OK, I'm probably years out of date then. I'll look it up.


It was implemented within the last 2 years, with exception of Safari which did it in 2013.




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