Exactly this. They used a simple formula to grow their company of posting some novice technical articles to HN ~15 years ago. Then the 2010's standard business practice of "contributing" to open source (I don't consider anything they've done as progress, no different than any other web company). Then ~2011 they broke Tor and kept it broken until 2018 when they made it so if you have a big 4 browser (a fork thereof: Tor Browser), you can visit pages once again. But HN already was brainwashed so they couldn't upvote articles pointing this out so it was never fixed.The most insane backward nonsense is that Cloudflare proposed a browser extension to bypass the captcha. Like wtf will HN react if Microsoft suddenly made 50% of the web block russian IPs by default until you install a plugin they provide?
Now the only thing I worry about is how they will gimp IPFS since they are sort of leaning towards it once it or something similar replaces the web? They have to make money somehow. Any solution requires breaking things in such a protocol.
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