Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39714326

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

> I agree with you that having a service 100% free with 0 compromise is not possible, well, it is possible but someone is paying somewhere (see below)

> I disagree that the European union is throwing rules that makes no sense. Privacy should be the default, and if your business is not viable without tracking, perhaps it should not exist.

here is 2 examples of free services I am using daily :

signal : https://moneymodels.org/business-models/how-does-signal-make... (I donated)

mastodon : backed by https://sdf.org/ (I have not donated but wish to do so)

I believe that a more "socialist" approach is possible (pay if you can model so everyone can use the service regardless of their income) It will not scale to the size of facebook, but irc, mastodon and matrix.org already shows that federation works (not without pain).

The startup ecosystem based on advertising money may suffer, but I think this just lead to a better internet in the long run.

I would also add (but this is not email per se) : no adoption for GPG/PGP this makes your cryptographic signature a bare textfile attachement.

both microsoft and gmail spam filter = blackbox.

was always searching with / and "n"

example #1 : a teenager starting his first job should not have his data shared by default (it is useless for him and increase(I think) the risk that his identity gets stolen)

example #2 : when you go to a lender, he could say, yeah, we check with equifax, maybe you want to opt-in with them.

The fact that they are unavoidable are the problem in my opinion. It creates a kind of monopoly. If it was opt-in, maybe we would see more alternatives companies offering the same kind of service with better security and customer service.

P.S : There is an error in my file and I never bother to fix it, I never lived there, it is clearly a fraud attempt and this is their error, not mine to fix.

P.P.S : not an expert on the topic and maybe I am missing out on important details

also see the movies : "my teheran for sale" and "Persepolis"

as much as I hate USA foreign policy, it is also possible that Iranians want peace and freedom outside of foreign interests.

not everything is black and white.

thanks!

any gotchas I should worry about? (the aws calculator gives me 76.65$ USD / month)

I want to help but I am by no mean rich... don't want a crazy AWS bill...

I don't believe in cloudflare principles either. Seems like they only grew "responsible" when it attracted negative public attention in the last days/weeks.

this looks like PR, damage/image control to me.

we do not have a good solution for partial censorship on the internet right now (always the same issues, who can decide to take out a website who implement it, due process, vpn moderation etc)

for me, having principles regarding content removal at this point is pretty much black and white, either you are totally against censorship (without due process), or you are ok with it.

Cloudflare actions denote they don't hold any of the principles above even if they know all about the selective content removal complexities.

P.S: Interrestingly, the Department of Homeland Security seems to be able to seize various domains quite easily.

I assume everyone here have a VPN...

would be fun to post some trans positive messages on their rotten kiwi farm.