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On-topic: Seems like a good feature. Off-topic: I've been reading some of the comments and I notice a bunch of HN-members are unhappy about their product. My experience: things never broke for me, never needed to contact support, ads are blocked, etc (But I also use uBlock, etc) (P.s. - My only complaint is that -- like so many other SaaS offerings -- administrating payments is not easy enough. - No option to pay by…
On-topic: Seems like a good feature. Off-topic: I've been reading some of the comments and I notice a bunch of HN-members are unhappy about their product. My experience: things never broke for me, never needed to contact support, ads are blocked, etc (But I also use uBlock, etc) (P.s. - My only complaint is that -- like so many other SaaS offerings -- administrating payments is not easy enough. - No option to pay by…
Regarding payments, I pay yearly. At the time I signed up I think it was the only option. They do have a $1.99/month option now, but they still offer yearly pricing.
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I went to see ControlD's website to see if it was any good but the chat thingy was trying to convince me by saying "protect your connection like the Coliseum protected Rome, try ControlD's free DNS", which I guess is a way of trying something funny since I'm connecting from Italy, but it does not inspire much confidence in their protection abilities
It’s clearly AI generated, and badly.
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Absence of parenting is a bigger threat than privacy. I accidentally agree with you, even if you're wrong.
Parents don't follow their child 24/7. Society has a responsibility too. There is also the possibility of minors not knowing what they are clicking or kids with shitty parents destroying your hard work. Another non-parent with an irrelevant opinion.
Raising children is not a risk free activity. Parents shouldn’t follow their children 24/7, even if they could. Your children, by accident AND through their own curiousity are going to be exposed to things you don’t think they are ready for. You can’t stop that, even in a perfect world. Prevent and delay it as best you can, sure, but the best protection is internal. Instill in them the ability to make good choices, build trust and confidence and be someone they can talk to about it when it happens.
There’s nothing new here. Nothing special about the internet. Parents were saying the same thing about us when we were children and none of their controls were effective. We were still exposed to some things before we were ready. Those kids with shitty parents (and even the ones with good ones) are going to get around any such restrictions and expose your kids to things and your kids might expose them to things as well.
Stop denigrating non-parents’ opinions. Not only do they have a stake in the situation but you seem to forget they were also children too. And before you write off my opinion the same way, my children are adults.
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It’s clearly AI generated, and badly.
Incredible that they found a way to use AI to do anti-marketing and lose customers
That’s a bold move. Handing over IDs to random sites is definitely a privacy nightmare, so I get why you built this. The real question is whether it buys time for users or just accelerates the push for stricter regulation. Either way, it sparks an important conversation
The mistake that UK, and probably others, have made is that the government isn't actually able to provide the required infrastructure.
If the solution is anonymous in the sense that the government doesn't see that I visit some site, and the site doesn't see who I am, then I struggle to see problem. This assumes that it's only applied to services and products that are already age restricted in the physical world already.
Do not promote or use NextDNS, it's essentially abandoned. You will not get any support from the developer when something breaks, and it will break. I tried for a year to contact him before abandoning it. Just check the help forums.
On-topic: Seems like a good feature. Off-topic: I've been reading some of the comments and I notice a bunch of HN-members are unhappy about their product. My experience: things never broke for me, never needed to contact support, ads are blocked, etc (But I also use uBlock, etc) (P.s. - My only complaint is that -- like so many other SaaS offerings -- administrating payments is not easy enough. - No option to pay by…
Do not promote or use NextDNS, it's essentially abandoned. You will not get any support from the developer when something breaks, and it will break. I tried for a year to contact him before abandoning it. Just check the help forums.
I've used nextDNS for years but the past few weeks its been breaking websites left, right and centre so I gave up on it entirely. Everything feels much snappier since I dropped them for a different option too
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Absence of parenting is a bigger threat than privacy. I accidentally agree with you, even if you're wrong.
Parents don't follow their child 24/7. Society has a responsibility too. There is also the possibility of minors not knowing what they are clicking or kids with shitty parents destroying your hard work. Another non-parent with an irrelevant opinion.
Does that argument work in other cases? "Sure it's insert bad thing, but if you were a parent, you'd understand. I'd do _anything_ to protect my lil one"
No, being a parent doesn't make your opinion more relevant really.