Polyfill.io was owned by the Financial Times web team, then moved under community management, and the last maintainer sold the project to a weird Chinese CDN company, and they moved it away from Fastly (the CDN / Edge compute platform running the OSS code for the service) and started to mess with the returned files.
From polyfill.io original creator: twitter.com/triblondon/status/1761852117579427975
Issue on their repo: polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/2834
The domain polyfill.io is now a CNAME to polyfill.io.bsclink.cn, there has been no communication about this, or how the service is now ran (it previously depended on Fastly's edge compute platform, which is not available on this chinese cloud).
"The problem is, if we don’t deal with politics, politics will deal with us. We can choose to not act when people are being oppressed, but when it's our turn to be oppressed, it will be too late and there will be no one for us. You don't need to be Uyghur or a Muslim to act, you need only to be a human and have empathy for our fellow humans."
the rapid growth vastly outpaced immediate demand and overwhelmed Chinese cities, where infrastructure and regulations were not prepared to handle a sudden flood of millions of shared bicycles.
Wow