We have recently experimented with LogRocket, but it’s currently deactivated (though we might activate it again in the future). People should also feel free to block it, since the benefit for us is just from getting more data on how on-average users interact with the site.
We don’t use dropbox, and indeed it isn’t loaded on any page I could find. People often use Dropbox to host images for LessWrong posts, so my guess is that where that request came from. The same goes for dl.drop and the dropboxusercontent URL.
Google Analytics is just really useful. We are building up internal analytics infrastructure, but I think we are still quite a bit away from being able to shut down Google Analytics.
The Googleapis are likely for Google’s ReCaptcha which we use to identify bots.
Overall, feel free to deactivate basically all of them, and nothing horrible should break. With the exception of typekit, algolia, jsdelivr (which would break LaTeX editing) and cloudflare. You can just deactivate Intercom in your user settings if you don’t want it, but you can also just block requests to Intercom.com.
Yep, this is basically right.
We have recently experimented with LogRocket, but it’s currently deactivated (though we might activate it again in the future). People should also feel free to block it, since the benefit for us is just from getting more data on how on-average users interact with the site.
We don’t use dropbox, and indeed it isn’t loaded on any page I could find. People often use Dropbox to host images for LessWrong posts, so my guess is that where that request came from. The same goes for dl.drop and the dropboxusercontent URL.
Google Analytics is just really useful. We are building up internal analytics infrastructure, but I think we are still quite a bit away from being able to shut down Google Analytics.
The Googleapis are likely for Google’s ReCaptcha which we use to identify bots.
Overall, feel free to deactivate basically all of them, and nothing horrible should break. With the exception of typekit, algolia, jsdelivr (which would break LaTeX editing) and cloudflare. You can just deactivate Intercom in your user settings if you don’t want it, but you can also just block requests to Intercom.com.