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I just had an idea: if you control your own name server I believe you could use a BIND view to send all their own traffic to themselves based on the source address. By the way, if someone discovers how to trigger this issue it would be easy to use it as a DOS pseudo-botnet.
You could just probably send an HTTP redirect to their own site, no need to play with DNS for that
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A single company does not get a /12 prefix. 2a00::/12 is almost half of the space currently allocated to all of RIPE NCC. Facebook seems to have 2a03:2880::/29 out of that /12, and a /40 through ARIN (2620:0:1c00::/40)
ugh why is ipv6 impossible to understand :/
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The question isn't about pricing. The fact that you pay for your own bandwidth and metal is a problem.
Paying for your bandwidth and metal isn't a problem per-se as long as prices are reasonable (which they are with the old-school bare-metal providers). After all, those services do cost money to provide. The problem happens when prices are extortionate (or the pricing model is predatory, ie pay per MB transferred instead of a flat rate per 1Gbps link) and relatively minor traffic translates to a major bill. This parti…
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Side question: how did you get in contact with facebook? I've an ad account that was suspended last year and gave up trying to contact them.
Really? I've never had problems contacting them by email. They're one of the easiest tech companies to talk to.
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Side question: how did you get in contact with facebook? I've an ad account that was suspended last year and gave up trying to contact them.
Try their live chat.
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Side question: how did you get in contact with facebook? I've an ad account that was suspended last year and gave up trying to contact them.
Similar experience, closed ad account because of “suspicious activity”, at least ten support tickets (half closed automatically), four lame apologies (our system says no, sry) and then finally, “there was an error in our system, you’re good to go”
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Try their live chat.
Do they actually have a live chat available for smaller advertisers? When I looked last year there wasn't
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Nobody is forcing you to use GPL code. It is stinking of entitlement to demand that you get to use other people's code regardless of what they think about it.
I don't feel entitled to it, I just consider the prevalence of copyleft bad for the developer community. License however you want, doesn't mean I'm entitled for criticizing it. What might be stinking of entitlement is the idea users have an inalienable right to source code.