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GoDaddy is a well-documented garbage fire. I used them once, then switched to Namecheap and I've never looked back.
> is a well-documented garbage fire as I asked above, can you elaborate this? I am not aware at all
What most likely happens is that there is some fingerprinting JS running trying to weed out bots; and as Brave has a lot of anti-fingerprinting measures built-in, some of the tests fail.
You already shouldn't be using GoDaddy, so there's another reason
What's a better one? I've been using Google Domains, I don't really have a reason to complain about them, but I've always wondered whether parking everything with a big corporation like that will have its drawbacks one day.
You already shouldn't be using GoDaddy, so there's another reason
What's a better one? I've been using Google Domains, I don't really have a reason to complain about them, but I've always wondered whether parking everything with a big corporation like that will have its drawbacks one day.
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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."
It's a fair assumption that the majority of the code on the internet probably isn't written by you, so what you or any other individual writes isn't exactly a counter-argument.
I'd assume the poster you replied to was referring to the Javascript that gets delivered to their browser on a day to day basis by general purpose web sites, for which a significant percentage being ads and related unwanted content is entirely plausible.
If you were to capture all of the Javascript delivered to a randomly selected person's browser during a normal day I would easily believe somewhere between 50 and 80 percent of that Javascript was things that if the user was given a real choice they would not choose to load.
You already shouldn't be using GoDaddy, so there's another reason
What's a better one? I've been using Google Domains, I don't really have a reason to complain about them, but I've always wondered whether parking everything with a big corporation like that will have its drawbacks one day.
- there was no way to move the "root" domain name away from Google Workspace while the account was still in service,
- after deleting the account, any access was definitely lost (I spent a lot of time on the phone with them, but they provided no help),
- the lost domain name was never "released", it remained officially under my ownership until the very last day of its registration period, even though I had no way to act on it.
- when I called that out a bug, they firmly replied that no there was no bug...
So, the lesson is: never use a domain name important for your business as the root domain name of a Google Workspace account, unless you really are sure that you will never need to move it to another registrar nor to delete the account.
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I thought Cloudflare had a deliberately manual (and therefore more secure but also more expensive and slower) process for registering domains. Has that changed?
Registering domains is very fast. To transfer a domain Cloudflare insists that you use them for DNS, but I already do that. For the transfer it’s just like anywhere else. Initiate the transfer, get the code from the other registrar and wait for it to go through.
That feels… slimy…
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.
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
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.
Big registrars can’t afford any support costs since they prefer to squeeze the price down as far as possible, and therefore they prefer to simply lose or outright drop any customer in case of any and all problems. Conversely, small registrars may charge more, but have better (i.e. actually existing, and sometimes even dedicated and personal) support for when things go wrong, and have a vested interest in keeping you as a customer.
A small registrar might also be so small as to know you personally, which will help monumentally against any social engineering attacks.
Full disclosure: I work at such a registrar, but you’re probably not in our target market.