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not (exactly) a unicode encoding issue, it's IDNA encoding. it's unicode encoded as ascii.
So it’s an issue with HN being a trash website. A trash website that I like a lot, but still a trash website. Maybe in 20 years we’ll be able to use emojis on here.
Author did a surprisingly good job hanging on to all the receipts to support his claim "cloudflare bad." But his alternatives are all CDN providers - which is not even the side of the business that makes cloudflare unique and makes them money. The piece, thorough as it may be, does not offer alternatives to products that cover the exciting parts of their business and I was looking forward to seeing what those were -…
I do not think that's the author complaint, though. I frequently get these cloudflare captachas and it is why I disabled their firewall (it's pure garbage) for my own sites. Cloudflare does not have any monopoly over the services you mentioned (workers, tunnels, images, etc.) but they do have a kind-of-monopoly over DNS/CDN.
My takeaway was basically that people use Cloudflare a lot because it is a strong service with a ton to offer at a very low price point. It's a bit like gmail - just very convenient and offers a lot for free or very cheap. Switching at that scale made a significant increase in their monthly bill.
I do applaud people who go out of their way to create alternatives to major services like cloudflare, gmail, chrome, etc. As an individual it can be hard to do though, or at least not always the path of least resistance.
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not (exactly) a unicode encoding issue, it's IDNA encoding. it's unicode encoded as ascii.
So it’s an issue with HN being a trash website. A trash website that I like a lot, but still a trash website. Maybe in 20 years we’ll be able to use emojis on here.
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Maybe it is me, but I wouldn't take whatever advice provided by someone who is only known by pseudonym.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
not (exactly) a unicode encoding issue, it's IDNA encoding. it's unicode encoded as ascii.
So it’s an issue with HN being a trash website. A trash website that I like a lot, but still a trash website. Maybe in 20 years we’ll be able to use emojis on here.
Browsers like now Chrome try and alert you if the URL visually looks spoofed (because they do support unicode symbols in the omnibox), but I'm yet to see how well this holds up in production.
And I hope in even 20 years we still can't use emojis here, our language isn't so pitiful that we must regress to brightly coloured symbols.
If it wasn't on HN, being upvoted by some, I wouldn't have clicked on the link judging from the domain name. Turns out it is unicode issues. I wonder if HN will ever fix it.
If it wasn't on HN, being upvoted by some, I wouldn't have clicked on the link judging from the domain name. Turns out it is unicode issues. I wonder if HN will ever fix it.