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Isn't pastebin the correct site to post lists like this?
by pdq 10y ago
Isn't pastebin the correct site to post lists like this?
- r3bl 10y agoNot if you want to update it. Also, Pastebin has some shady practices. One example: they offer HTTPS support as a premium feature.
- oolongCat 10y agoI am sorry, but I fail to see how offering https support as a premium feature could be considered "shady".
- chill1 10y agoAll web traffic should be encrypted, regardless of purpose. This increases the work that nation-state level adversaries must do to effectively spy on the population. And it's cheap and easy to do these days.
- oolongCat 10y agoIt's not a question if its easy to do or not. Yes I prefer an encrypted connection over one that is not. BUT! the point here is the op claims this is a shady practice to provide https to their paying customers. A shady practice is if they take your personal information and sell it to another without telling you. Shady is when companies lie to their customers. And this situation is not.
- chill1 10y agoFair enough. I don't think this is a "shady" practice either. But I think it's an old, out-dated practice to charge extra money for a feature that should be on by default.
- synthetik 10y agoIf you might need to make edits in the future, then a temporary account. Like a burner prepaid cell phone. HTTPS is for API users. The majority of pastes are anonymous.
- mistaken 10y agoWhy not ask the archive.org guys to publish it somewhere? The research already relies on their data and they seem to be pretty good at defusing shady legal requests.