So your answer to „you can’t generalize vpn good, isp bad because not everyone is living in the UK and US“ is „but what if everyone does?!“ ok

You make it sound like it’s always the case but ISPs in some countries are less centralized/ not on the stock market and rather oldschool so I bet they don’t do anything with your data (yet). Think of utility companies.

True but it seems to me that it’s an advantage to have your IP logged in this more decentralized way. most resolvers also cache the answers so it would be only logged the first time you visit a website.

Couldn’t you run a DNS resolver that pings the authoritative servers directly? Yes initial requests will be slower

I use the Wipr ad block extension and then just safari. I can’t bare YouTube ads.

Oh I love this guy. Seeing a reference to him in the wild makes me hope it at least pays his bills at this point :p

Yea the tech was worthless after that time and they also lost the lid of my grinder!!!

Yea tbf they released the web version as they crippled the third party stuff, so it’s a compromise I guess. And they could’ve also stayed app only and we would’ve been fucked completely

All I can say is that there were multiple good ones but Instagram crippled them, devs have repeatedly expressed their frustration and gave up practically. So no there is no frontend for Instagram that’s works anymore. Thanks meta!

I had to literally recreate my Spotify account when I deleted Facebook, since there is just no way to login without it if you delete Facebook.

It’s from a time where we didn’t have digital contact lists and no internet. So what if you want to call the bakery down the street? You look up a public record like YellowPages. And the same was true for people too. I know it’s hard to imagine now with plenty of Indian call centers social engineering grandma, but the only real “wow”here is why they didn’t change this yet.