Tech giants are hijacking the internet • Hacker News Board

Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet

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Post by actionfromafar » Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 7:24 AM UTC

squigz wrote: post #131

john_the_writer wrote: post #125

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There is just no alternative. If you want to self host a site your ISP won't let you. If you want to self host email, none of your messages will get through. 15 years ago I could host a site at home. Today, it can't be done. Want to regulate something... Make ISP's allow for self hosting. My 5 year old android phone has the power to host a small personal site, but my ISP won't let it happen.

What sort of place do you live that you can't host a site on your home network?

A NAT

Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet

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Post by Cyphase » Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 9:11 AM UTC

actionfromafar wrote: post #141

squigz wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What sort of place do you live that you can't host a site on your home network?

A NAT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

Re: Tech giants are hijacking the internet

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Post by Yizahi » Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 9:22 AM UTC

robertlagrant wrote: post #137

Yizahi wrote: post #135

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They are built on Chrome. Chromium is a shim, a pseudo-independent Chrome copy with some small changes, to pretend that there is no Chrome monopoly.

Can you cite how you know this?

Easy check - does Chromium project makes independent decisions and diverges from the decisions Chrome makes? Meaning, is it a true fork (disregarding who was first/original for a second) or not? So far it seems that everything Google pushes happens both in Chrome and Chromium. I mean significant decisions, like protocol support, rendering, etc. Sure, they cut out their spyware from it, just to please anti-monopoly organizations, but that's about all. Chromium is a puppet entity, existing only for Google's sake.