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Although I do think it's doable if he somehow kept the fact that he is at the helm a trade secret as he gradually grew the userbase until reaching a certain critical mass and finally revealing that he's the owner.
Assuming this gets implemented, users might start being unable to access certain websites or services because their identity is deemed "insufficient", which would move them to use a different browser that does not have this.
MikroTik has supported https for a very very long time, though it comes disabled by default and even if it didn't it wouldn't work because it requires the user creating/importing a cert to use with it.
At least the cert manager is quite intricate and they have a video (assuming the device has a valid WAN IP) on how to set it up with letsencrypt.
Whatever that means or if it's ever actually happening though remains to be seen.
"Stupid" is probably the wrong word here. "Gullible" is probably more apt, considering they keep falling for these.
They for sure would since there's a word for that: demagoguery.
It absolutely does, and that is precisely why they keep doing it. It doesn't work for the kinds of people that browse hackernews, but that's not their core audience anyway.
It's like saying ads don't work because you and me never click them because we use an adblock. Clearly they do work, and quite well...
You see videogames employing these psychological tactics constantly nowadays to completely min-max human behavior into spending money.
The strongest argument is Tesla still doesn't have self-driving cars considering he's given it tons of attention for years and missed ETAs many times, but they're clearly getting there.
That said, while I do think space travel is crazy cool, the prospects of living on Mars are quite long-term and a _lot_ of work to the point you might ask if it's really worth it worrying about it right now. How are they going to solve the atmosphere? Or even more impossible, how are they going to solve the ionizing radiation from space? I guess they could just live in closed-off domes but still...
The criticism on their firewall might as well be a criticism on iptables (which IMO is completely valid, even after years I still have doubts about what a certain rules structure is going to do).
iptables itself is extremely unintuitive (although extremely powerful and flexible), but their GUI makes it more manageable.
On the other hand, I'm not sure "unintuitive" is the correct word here. Having had the (dis)pleasure of setting up complex topologies on other manufactures like Cisco I found MikroTik to be considerably more intuitive (or perhaps "less unintuitive" would be more appropriate), possibly because Cisco has been built on for many decades and new features were constantly added on top of existing systems for compatibility purposes instead of redoing the CLI from scratch to make a more consistent user experience.
Your script is probably going to break due to the new syntaxes in v7, but no significant added new features on that matter that I'm aware.
You could potentially build a Linux PC to do some of the more basic stuff that most ISPs require at a similar price, such as PPPoE concentrators, but it's still a lot more hands-on work for no clear benefit.
I can't find right now what the market share of peering routers is in Rio's IX, but i feel like it's significantly higher than 10% (probably between 20 to 30%).
Nearly a decade at a small/medium ISP in Brazil (where illegal competitiveness isn't uncommon) and I've never seen this happening to us (or if it did, we never found out).
This is because jamming the spectrum requires a very powerful antenna that will _also_ interfere with every other antenna in the region, including probably their own. Instead of that, it's way easier to just grab some scissors and cut off your competitor's wires (which has in fact happened to us on numerous occasions).
So while there are anticompetitive practices I don't think this is one you'd ever have to worry about.
This cannot be stated enough. I think just YouTube alone would be enough to justify Google's existence.
Meanwhile Amazon has Twitch, and people there don't seem to think too highly of how things are being managed (they somehow managed to break every single adblock available and at this point have won against adblockers).
The downside comes down to the end user experience if those websites being prioritized have lower quality material, which in turn might force those users to use a different search engine that might not care about that if it means they're getting more users.
I would sometimes worry about that. At some point internet privacy will be completely erased, not by malicious or greedy corporate practices but by algorithms scraping all of big data on the internet. This will ultimately be inevitable, almost everything you've ever posted on the internet will at some point be retroactively traced back to you.
The upside is that this isn't what's going to happen to your data, nor to my data. This is what's going to happen to _everyone's_ data. As long as the whole world bites the dust together, I can see the actual damage being minimized.
Of course, this does not take into account living within governments that don't care about human rights and that you happen to disagree with or be critical of.