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Important context given by the author of polyfill:

> If your website uses http://polyfill.io, remove it IMMEDIATELY.

I created the polyfill service project but I have never owned the domain name and I have had no influence over its sale. (1)

Although I wonder how the GitHub account ownership was transferred.

(1) https://x.com/triblondon/status/1761852117579427975



Hi, I'm the original author of the polyfill service. I did not own the domain name nor the GitHub account. In recent years I have not been actively involved in the project, and I'm dismayed by what's happened here. Sites using the original polyfill.io should remove it right away and use one of the alternatives or just drop it entirely - in the modern era it really isn't needed anymore.


People should have never started including javascript from third-party domains in the first place. It was always playing with fire and there were plenty of people pointing out the risks.


Does this person telling us not to use polyfill.io, and the guy who sold polyfill.io to the chinese company both work at Fastly? If so, that's kind of awkward...


It appears both currently do work for Fastly. I am pleased the Fastly developer advocate warned us, and announced a fork and alternative hosting service:

[1] https://community.fastly.com/t/new-options-for-polyfill-io-u...

But it leaves me with an uneasy feeling about Fastly.


literally went from cloudflare to fastly and now this stuff happpens....

can't catch a break


Neither of them had ownership of the project, so neither of them were responsible for the sale or benefited from it.

They both simply dedicated a lot of time, care and skill to the project. It's really a shame to see what they spent so much time building and maintaining now being used as a platform to exploit people. I'm sure its extremely disappointing to both of them.


https://web.archive.org/web/20240229113710/https://github.co...

Is JakeChampion not the one who sold the project? His bio says he currently works at Fastly


Funnull claims that Jake Champion owned the project and transferred it to them as part of an acquisition agreement[1].

1. https://x.com/JFSIII/status/1761385341951361182


The Internet Archive shows the progression of events pretty clearly.

- In ~May 2023, the FT transferred it to Jake Champion: https://web.archive.org/web/20230505112634/https://polyfill....

- In mid-Oct, the site stated it was "Proudly sponsored by Fastly": https://web.archive.org/web/20231011015804/https://polyfill....

- In November 2023, this was dropped: https://web.archive.org/web/20231101040617/https://polyfill....

- In December 2023, JakeChampion made a sequence of edits removing his name from the repo and pointing to "Polyfill.io maintainers": https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/... https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/...

- In mid-February 2024, the polyfillpolyfill account was created on Github, and took ownership over the repo.

So I think sometime between October 2023 and February 2024, JakeChampion decided to sell the site to Funnull. I think the evidence is consistent with him having made a decision to sell the site to _somebody_ in December 2023, and the deal with Funnull closing sometime early February 2024.


Seems like it. I hope the money was worth it.




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