Thanks for bringing this up. As Macro mentioned, it looks like the script
for our blog integration is no longer available. We are working on fixing
this and switching to hosting additional js/css on our website instead of
fetching remotely.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 9:57 AM Marco de Abreu
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the loading time is due to a timeout with the third party. It returns a 522
> error code after 15 seconds.
>
> But none the less, you got a valid point regarding the new privacy policy.
> The website template is quite dated and I think it has been developed and
> put in place before GDPR was even instantiated.
>
> -Marco
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 1:37 PM sebb wrote:
>
> > I noticed that the Mxnet website is very slow to load (nearly 16 secs).
> >
> > This seems to be due to trying to load widget.js from a 3rd party
> website.
> >
> > Apart from the slow loading, I'm not sure this is allowed under the
> > new Privacy policy. [1]
> >
> > There are also a couple of CSS files that are loaded remotely.
> >
> > I think such 3rd party content should be downloaded to the Mxnet
> > website and served from there, as is required for Google fonts [2].
> > That should also fix the slow page loading.
> >
> > Sebb
> > [1] https://privacy.apache.org/policies/privacy-policy-public.html
> > [2]
> https://privacy.apache.org/faq/committers.html#can-i-use-google-fonts
> >
>
