09-13-2024, 10:23 AM
(09-12-2024, 03:34 PM)sahgwa Wrote: I miss the old internet for sure.
As I was saying elsewhere, a lot of us have also aged to the point where we don't feel like expressing ourselves as much as we used to, though.
That doesn't excuse the 'stream lining' /corporatising of the net though.... :(
false choices. etc.
I saw it coming with the beginning of cloudflare and public CDNs. Why anyone wants this crap, I dunno. Most sites are located geographically to their clientele to begin with and for those that aren't, the latency probably doesn't matter to anyone by Google, who comes up with completely arbitrary metrics - like 2s page load times max for a good listing, when the typical corporate media front takes 15-25 seconds to load and is a #1 result.
Just excuses to control access to the content, and spy on who is viewing it, IMHO. Its really no big deal to setup a reverse proxy with squid and a copy of HAProxy on a VPS which gives you all the functionality of a CDN with none of the privacy implications.
Hell, I saw it even before that when Gmail went public beta. I was one of the first people given an invite. When I read their terms, the first thing I said was "why would I want Google to read my email and keep it in a database indefinitely?"
