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Re:FTC Takes Action Against GoDaddy for Alleged Lax Data Sec... by zelphirkalt on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @11:01AM (#42853833)
They profit a lot from uninformed CTOs and founders just going for whatever they heard of, instead of looking into whether it is a good provider, footing their businesses on shaky foundations.
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Re:FTC Takes Action Against GoDaddy for Alleged Lax Data Sec... by reaperducer on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:07PM (#42854807)
They profit a lot from uninformed CTOs and founders just going for whatever they heard of, instead of looking into whether it is a good provider

If it wasn't for those old Super Bowl ads, GoDaddy wouldn't exist today.

Sex sells.

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Re:FTC Takes Action Against GoDaddy for Alleged Lax Data Sec... by wswope on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:00PM (#42855638)
Yeah - selection bias and apathy is the root of it, IMO.

GoDaddy attracts the unwashed masses who don’t care about security, and who remain unphased after learning about breaches. Meanwhile, the tech-savvy crowd who would care about breaches already know to avoid GoDaddy and view the inevitable breaches as the plebs reaping what they’ve sown.

Ergo, no one getting breached by GoDaddy cares, and nobody informed watching it happen feels a need to intervene.

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