What does include_plotlyjs=“cdn” do?

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My goal is to generate an interactive html file from plotly fig and embed this html in my website. I was previously using fig.write_html(‘name.html’) , but in the generated HTML, there are some unwanted symbols like ampersands(&&). Now, I tried adding cdn like fig.write_html(‘name.html’, include_plotlyjs=“cdn”) , which solves the && problem but I have some questions about this:

  1. On using cdn, is my data still secured/private, and can there be some possible complications on embedding this html to my website?
  2. Is there any better/alternate way of removing the && symbols/cleaning the initial html file generated by plotly?
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including cdn will just include js library to your html and apprently reduce size of file from 3.X MB to few KBs.
it is secure . you just need to make sure that you have internet connection on when viewing the html file as it will load plotly cdn from internet.

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