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Instead of client.your domain.tld, register client-your domain.tld. This would prevent one bad actor from nuking your whole business.
Yes it has a cost, but it’s like $10 a year for a new domain, which I bet pales in comparison to other direct costs of running a SaaS.
First thing I always wonder with these, what did your customer(s) do wrong?
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threat-exchange/getting...
This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. They simply have too much power over lives of billions. This article is just another reminder of this. At scale that Meta operates, this algorithmically decided domain blockings mean nothing to them, but everything to hundred's of non-profits. There need to be legally mandated protections so things like this never happen again.
> This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. No. Giving this additional power to the government will not have the outcome you want. When something becomes too powerful, the solution is not to further concentrate that power into less accountable hands.
Well, it depends on the governance obviously. If you talk some autocratic regime, where the king proclaimed "I am the state", that fits your description for sure.
On the other hand, if you are looking at a direct democracy regime, you could hardly make the power more pervasive, and every citizen has to carry its part of accountability on every social matter.
First thing I always wonder with these, what did your customer(s) do wrong?
Why not use full domains for a service like this? Instead of client.your domain.tld, register client-your domain.tld. This would prevent one bad actor from nuking your whole business. Yes it has a cost, but it’s like $10 a year for a new domain, which I bet pales in comparison to other direct costs of running a SaaS.
This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. They simply have too much power over lives of billions. This article is just another reminder of this. At scale that Meta operates, this algorithmically decided domain blockings mean nothing to them, but everything to hundred's of non-profits. There need to be legally mandated protections so things like this never happen again.
Nationalised by what country? US? UK? France? Russia? Saudi Arabia? India? China?
Would we have country-specific and isolated social media and search engines?
Even in nominally free western countries, do you really want the government controlling what can be in a search engine or posted on social media?
At my previous company we had "Sign in with Facebook" – whatever your opinions on it are, it was probably the right thing for the company at that time.
Facebook decided to "audit" us to make sure we were doing sign in right. The tested it incorrectly, told us we were at fault and needed to fix it, and gave us 2 weeks to do so. We scrambled to figure out what the issue was, only to find after they eventually replied to our emails (all they told us up-front was "it doesn't work") that they had tried to use a sign-in only button to sign-up, similar on many websites, not at all for our flow and not something it was possible for us to do. We explained this and they dropped the audit.
2 weeks later, they audited us again, failed us again, and gave us a deadline to fix it. We replied pointing to the previous case and explaining again why it was working. We never heard back.
2 weeks later, they audited us again, failed us again, and gave us a deadline to fix it. We replied asking what the hell was happening (politely). We never heard back.
1 week later "Sign in with Facebook" stopped working with no other warning. We opened a support case, we emailed our ads account manager, we emailed our previous ads account manager as the first was on holiday, and all we got was "we're looking into it, but it looks legit, fix it".
I asked for a call and explained that the current user experience for users was that they would click "Sign in with Facebook" and see an error saying "Facebook is currently not working, please sign in another way", and that the only way we had to resolve this was to email all our Facebook auth'd users a password reset with an explanation that Facebook sign in no longer worked, and to then remove the feature from our site.
"Ah. Ok yeah let me see what I can do". It was working about 2 hours later, and we weren't audited again in the rest of the time I was at the company.
This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. They simply have too much power over lives of billions. This article is just another reminder of this. At scale that Meta operates, this algorithmically decided domain blockings mean nothing to them, but everything to hundred's of non-profits. There need to be legally mandated protections so things like this never happen again.
> This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. No. Giving this additional power to the government will not have the outcome you want. When something becomes too powerful, the solution is not to further concentrate that power into less accountable hands.
This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. They simply have too much power over lives of billions. This article is just another reminder of this. At scale that Meta operates, this algorithmically decided domain blockings mean nothing to them, but everything to hundred's of non-profits. There need to be legally mandated protections so things like this never happen again.
Would you be ok with the chinese or argentinian government running Alphabet or Meta? I don't think most government are better than any corporation.
"government are better than any corporation" (or its reverse) means nothing if you don’t provide some specific topics and possible metrics to evaluate them.
Also, not all government and corporations behaves in the very same way.