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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by Dirlewanger on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @10:38AM (#8296729)
You're thinking too broad. Think about what this is: a blog post from a CDN company. Who's the main audience? Tech-savvy people. Tech-savvy people will put this on their site that's most likely for tech-savvy people (who in turn have heard of Net Neutrality and hopefully have contacted their Congressperson about it). Any people who work for companies who have substantial traffic from non-tech-savvy people most likely would not be in a position to implement this near-worthless popup.

Face it, unless Google puts something up on their homepage (they won't), nothing's changing.

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by wuliwong on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @10:52AM (#8296811)
Your assumption that the audience for Cloudflare's post is "tech-savvy people" is accurate but your follow-up assumption that the websites that these tech-savvy people make are "most likely" for tech-savvy people is obviously incorrect. The website I built for music. Certainly, my users need not be tech savvy to use my site. So if I installed this popup, there is a good chance of showing it to some non-tech people. I would assume that a lot of people that read HN have built products for non-tech people.
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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by Zikes on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @10:53AM (#8296819)
So you're saying there's nothing we can do and we should just keep our heads down and pretend nothing's wrong because there's no way we can compete with big companies and lobbying groups.

Good plan, let me know how that works out.

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by icebraining on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @11:36AM (#8297057)
Saying "this is not useful" is not the same as saying "nothing is useful".
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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by chrischen on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @01:03PM (#8297574)
Google may not be tech savvy, but I'm sure some of the tech savvy people reading the blog probably have a wife or non-tech-savvy friend who works at Google. Lots of tech savvy people in the value know at least one or two people at Google.
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