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Re:The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website by abdullahkhalids on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:51AM (#24638674)
Smartphones will not work as others have pointed out. Even convincing people to keep something running on their laptop for part of the day won't give good reliability.

The only real solution is selling little boxes for less than 50 dollars that you can plug into your router and make it dead simple to host a website without any technical knowledge.

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Re:The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website by yummypaint on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:05AM (#24638830)
The problem is ISPs dont provide any options for decent upload speed. I have a 200 Mbit download connection and spectrum throttles upload to 10. There are no symmetric options. Users can never win against a vertically integrated monopoly.
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Re:The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website by abdullahkhalids on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:12AM (#24638890)
Yes. But that is a problem that you can work around with distributed hosting. Won't be perfect, because I think initial connection will take several seconds for every visitor, but should be faster after that.
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