I use Google and I'm comfortable with that.

The nice part about using Google is first off it offers speed advantages (as most people will have Google's JQuery lib cached already), secondly I don't expect Google to get hacked, and lastly we have Google's permission to do exactly that.

So, do you think your visitors have a problem with Google knowing about every visit to your site?

It is specifically mentioned in our privacy policy. We also use Google Analytics, so that ship has sailed.

Nonsense. Users can very likely block Google Analytics on your site with ease, and without impacting the rest of your site's functionality. That's not necessarily the case when more critical content is served from Google's servers.

Regardless of what your privacy policy states, the responsible thing to do is to at least give your users the option of opting out of such tracking by third-parties, all while still leaving your site usable.

If Google's CDN is unavailable it falls back to a local copy we host. Inline with this example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5257923/how-to-load-local...

> the responsible thing to do is to at least give your users the option of opting out of such tracking by third-parties

Reddit do this. You can choose to load their js from their own servers rather than a CDN.

Indeed, it's the funniest public sevice announcement I have seen in a while.