Why would anyone host files at a provider that charges for egress?
EasyList would need more than the 100mbs Scaleway offers for €2/month but Scaleway has more capable instances.
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#292Is Google’s AMP-cache a candidate for distributing the file?
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it any different from a json file used by a web app (or mobile app, or desktop app)? And there is no reason a web app couldn't read data from a txt file instead of a json file.
It's not for displaying a webpage but to power a separate application. Just because you can serve any kind of file over HTTP doesn't mean it's for serving a website. There's a reason Cloudflare doesn't allow large video files either - even though that probably counts even more as "web content". This is a very straightforward interpretation of the terms and it's strange to see such pushback based on a pedantic technic…
But the support email didn't say it was a violation of the ToS because it is primarily used by non webpage applications (the ToS does say APIs may be allowed, but doesn't have specific details on when afaict), it says it is a violation because it is a txt file, and there is a txt couldn't be a part of a website. And in fact robots.txt and security.txt are standard and common txt files serves as part of websites. In the case if robots.txt it also is primarily consumed by web crawlers, not for actually rendering web pages. Does that mean robots.txt violates the ToS too?
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their point isn't that EasyList could have done anything differently, their point is that they are glad that they didn't decide to rely on others' infrastructure for their own ad blocker, because that makes them resilient against the fallout from this and similar.
Except it wouldn’t make them resilient since, as I pointed out, neither of the things they did would be of any help at all to Easylist in this situation. It’s great that they’re happy with their choices, but the choices would, in this same situation, likely saddle them with a crippled infrastructure and/or some insane bandwidth bills for suddenly pushing 100 extra TB/m.
100 TB/month is only like 40 mb/s I can find VPS that advertise 200 mb/s dedicated for not much (but still way more than “free”)
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#295Just serve an easy list to these browsers that blocks every image and all css. Problem solved.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't understand their argument that a text file 'isn't a web content'; seems like a bullshit excuse.
So does this mean any site with a security.txt file is violating cloudflares ToS?
How about robots.txt, since security.txt is looked at by humans, but robots.txt is almost exclusively looked at by non web browser clients.
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#297If I recall correctly there was some image on wikipedia that was getting billions of downloads a day or something, all from India, because some smart phone had made it a default "hello" image and hot linked it. Unfortunately, I can't find a reference to it anymore.
Not that you’d do it, but the temptation there is always to repoint your real application to a different URL and change the original image to something subtly NSFW.
Wikipedia is anyone can edit. It wouldn't be the first time someone did something like that.
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Sponsorblock has saved me hundreds of hours from watching youtube ads and other time wasting bullshit. The devs deserve to be paid for making this awesome application.
Or, you know, pay for Youtube Premium and get no ads? Added bonus of supporting the creators who make those videos you watch.
YouTube premium doesn't skip in-content ad segments in videos. Sponsorblock does.
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#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sponsorblock has saved me hundreds of hours from watching youtube ads and other time wasting bullshit. The devs deserve to be paid for making this awesome application.
Or, you know, pay for Youtube Premium and get no ads? Added bonus of supporting the creators who make those videos you watch.
And yet, you'll still get sponsor segues.
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#300Here we go, text/plain is no web content. Cloudflare defines the internet.