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GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by sgbeal »

pluc wrote: post #33
pdw wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to differentiate between completely disabled JavaScript, some individual JavaScript files being blocked by an (overzealous?) ad blocker, and the browser not implementing some required JavaScript feature.

I've been using NoScript for about a month full-time.. and it's insane the things you can leave blocked and still see a site as it's meant to be. Ads, trackers and internal tools that somehow I have to contribute my data to, and their accompanying libraries EASILY make up 70% of all JS.

> Ads, trackers and internal tools that somehow I have to contribute my data to, and their accompanying libraries EASILY make up 70% of all JS.

Citation needed. Literally 100% of the JS code i've written over the past 24 years has been 100% free of "ads, trackers, and internal tools that somehow users have to contributor their data to."

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by dave4420 »

brightball wrote: post #43
dmje wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like most things it's not as simple as that. I'm a long-in-the-tooth web guy (30+ years doing this stuff) and for Legacy Reasons I use GD. I wish I didn't, but all my domains (and all my client domains) are with them. Yes I could unpick, but do I have time / inclination? No. Do I want multiple domain registrars? No. So - yeh, agree in principle, disagree in practice.

I used to have about 50 domains there and moving everything to Cloudflare was pretty simple. Just start using it as a DNS first, which I was doing anyway. Then the transfer process takes about 2 minutes per domain so the whole process was done in a little over an hour.

I thought Cloudflare had a deliberately manual (and therefore more secure but also more expensive and slower) process for registering domains. Has that changed?

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

_notathrowaway wrote: post #53

Speaking of registars, what does HN recommend? I was a happy namecheap user until they decided to go all political against Russian citizens. I am unsure as to what service I should migrate to.

I like gandi.net but have no idea of their political stance re Russian citizens

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by rat9988 »

alias_neo wrote: post #25
pdw wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to differentiate between completely disabled JavaScript, some individual JavaScript files being blocked by an (overzealous?) ad blocker, and the browser not implementing some required JavaScript feature.

I don't envy web developers, that's a difficult situation. I still stand by that the error message could be a lot clearer regardless.

The message is clear enough. It's intended for people who don't know much. Not people who mess with the browser features.

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by sgbeal »

shireboy wrote: post #40

I’m a Brave user and tired of Godaddy even if they fix this. What is the best alternative registrar? I just want names, possibly mail forwarding, not hosting etc.

> I just want names, possibly mail forwarding, not hosting etc.

Another alternative is NearlyFreeSpeech.net. i'm using them simply for DNS with great results and fantastic prices. IIRC, if you _just_ use them for DNS it costs 1c per domain per day. If they are your registrar, that drops to 1c/3 days. i'm only using them for registration and DNS and it costs me about $1.20 per year. Their UI is... somewhat 1990s... but it works well and they have outstanding absolutely-zero-BS/marketing-speak docs (which was the thing which caused them to win my evaluation for a new registrar).

Re: GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome

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Post by dknecht »

dave4420 wrote: post #52
brightball wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to have about 50 domains there and moving everything to Cloudflare was pretty simple. Just start using it as a DNS first, which I was doing anyway. Then the transfer process takes about 2 minutes per domain so the whole process was done in a little over an hour.

I thought Cloudflare had a deliberately manual (and therefore more secure but also more expensive and slower) process for registering domains. Has that changed?

We offer a zero-markup registrar on self-service platform also - https://blog.cloudflare.com/registrar-for-everyone/
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