Review by cheatfreak47
Rated 5 out of 5
by cheatfreak47, 8 months agoLocalCDN is a bit of a "tin-foil hat" style privacy tool if you ask me.
The prospect of relatively generic online resources hosted on content delivery networks being used to track you is definitely questionable, but on the other hand, reducing your networking footprint is still a generally good thing to do regardless- and LocalCDN seems to help with that goal, to some extent.
It seems to work, and it rarely causes trouble for sites most of the time, and it even supports whitelisting individual sites, so when it does break things, you can make it unbreak those things.
It's good but it's still up in the air how much this is actually contributing to your online privacy, if you ask me.
The prospect of relatively generic online resources hosted on content delivery networks being used to track you is definitely questionable, but on the other hand, reducing your networking footprint is still a generally good thing to do regardless- and LocalCDN seems to help with that goal, to some extent.
It seems to work, and it rarely causes trouble for sites most of the time, and it even supports whitelisting individual sites, so when it does break things, you can make it unbreak those things.
It's good but it's still up in the air how much this is actually contributing to your online privacy, if you ask me.
219 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Belladonna, a month agogodsend, it really is different from decentraleyes and if you have both installed, you're pretty much just untouchable from all the garbage requests and cdn. Love this a lot.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mohammad K., a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by antistress, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17888601, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Michael, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sam, 2 months agoThis has more features and has more CDN coverage than Decentraleyes. The extension feels a little heavy. Speed needs improvement, but otherwise it is very good.
- Rated 3 out of 5by HonestReviews, 2 months ago4-25-24: Takes 2-3 times longer than other extensions to load intobrowser. If this is any indication of it's ability to speed up your pages, it won't
- Rated 5 out of 5by geeknik, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by brna71, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mo, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18291635, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Henrique, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lemonade, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17303262, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MaSHiNiK, 6 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by JJ, 7 months agoI'd rate as 5 stars if it's not due to its broken URL matching. e.g. I can't even visit the home page of any CDN server unless the whole CDN domain is excluded from LocalCDN or unless LocalCDN is disabled.
Developer response
posted 7 months agoThanks for the feedback. The main task of LocalCDN is to redirect requests to CDNs to the internal storage or block them. Of course, this also includes the rare case when a user wants to visit a CDN's website directly. Normal users are not interested in CDNs or their websites, so advanced users should add CDN websites to the allowed list. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13277273, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MarsSeed, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by days, 8 months agogood thats its open source but even if i disable the extension for a website, the fonts are still not showing for some icons, e.g. arrow icons, when you have block google fonts on, disable, extension for website, refresh, it doesnt show fonts still, you have to remove cookies and site data, refresh, then it works
Developer response
posted 8 months agoIt would be great if you can also give an example so I can fix the issue. - Rated 3 out of 5by Tar-Man, 8 months agoAmazing in principle, and props for keeping Decentraleyes up-to-date. But in practice I kept having issues with exception fields not saving properly, sync not being reliable, and too much manual intervention required for sites that had issues. It's up to you if that's worth it to you. Very responsive dev. Wish I could rate higher.
Developer response
posted 8 months agoThanks for your feedback. I've been testing Firefox Sync for the last few days and could not find any errors while it was running, but I could find a few issues right after browser start. Hopefully these changes will fix the problem: https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN/issues/1510 - Rated 5 out of 5by Freso, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by LookedSpy637, 10 months ago