Load settings third party privacy issue?

[nou nou]

Hello,

I came across this setting in the load settings:

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Allow usage of third party content delivery networks:
If this setting is enabled, some files will be served from external third party servers instead of your server. This reduces the network bandwidth required by your server, but may present a privacy issue for some board administrator

I would like to use this, but wondered about the "privacy issue" - what privacy issue would that be, exactly?

Thanks!

[thecoalman]

When a user loads a page on your website their browser will make a request for the external resource. Whoever is hosting the external resource will know the users IP and what page on your site they are viewing.

[Macko]

When a user loads a page on your website their browser will make a request for the external resource. Whoever is hosting the external resource will know the users IP and what page on your site they are viewing.

I have a question about this.

I run a pretty normal forum, so would this be a real concern for me or my users????

Also, if we decided to give this a try, would I just select (YES) in the ACP, or would there need to be something I'd need to do on the server as well to start taking advantage of this??


Thanks in advance for any help.