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I would say that the reason is not FTP insecurity or anything else technical. They see no monetization in it as they cant put their ads in it, they cant track y

by stiray 7y ago

I would say that the reason is not FTP insecurity or anything else technical. They see no monetization in it as they cant put their ads in it, they cant track you (well this is wrong, they track you with chrome) and nobody is buying adwords for FTP. Why keeping it?

jbverschoor 7y ago
On the contrary. It’s a data only with maybe a motd. plenty of space to put ads. Especially if you’re looking for a driver
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
  This is an amusing thread. FTP in the browser typically looks something like this https://imgur.com/20ooI9f https://imgur.com/20ooI9f Plenty of space for ads. HTTP is basically FTP with ads. Funny thought. Imagine if, to this day, the internet consisted of pretty much that. You go to ftp://nytimes.com and it just has a directory structure that consists of yyyy/mm/dd and the file names where things like statement-from-chinese-ambassador-to-australia.txt And maybe a directory named breaking-news Imagine if Twitter was a list of text files named yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss-username.txt Ha. Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this --- Please place an x between the brackets as desired [ ] Whopper Meal [ ] Super sized Whopper Meal [ ] Coke [ ] Sprite [ ] Eat-in [ ] Takeaway etc Name on card: Card number: Expiry: Card Security Code: Sponsored by Nike and the Ford Motor Company ---- Edit: changes 'threat' to 'thread' in first line, typo could have been confusing. Second edit: made list verbatim.
  - ss64 7y ago
    Yes but if one of those files was ADSENSE-one-wierd-trick.jpg Nobody would actually bother to download it would they!
  - Jaruzel 7y ago
    > Funny thought. Imagine if, to this day, the internet consisted of pretty much that. That's pretty much Gopher. Another protocol that Chrome no longer supports.
  - hedora 7y ago
    You could write native apps on top of your proposed directory layouts, and it would be better than whatever people do today.
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    > Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this I would love this. This has better UX than the food ordering sites we have to deal with in the real world.
  - ucs 7y ago
    You’ve just described e-commerce circa 1990! On Usenet newsgroups and BBS conferences, sellers would post forms that looked exactly like that, except for the ads of course. Buyers would then send in their completed order form via either email/netmail or, preferably, via fax for added security. I remember always choosing to fax in my orders; even way back then, sharing credit card details via email seemed like a very bad idea.
  - coldtea 7y ago
    >Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this Sounds like a total improvement over websites I have suffered... not to mention allows all kinds of third parties to create their own fancier ordering systems on top!

by stiray 7y ago

jbverschoor 7y ago

On the contrary. It’s a data only with maybe a motd. plenty of space to put ads. Especially if you’re looking for a driver

TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
This is an amusing thread. FTP in the browser typically looks something like this https://imgur.com/20ooI9f https://imgur.com/20ooI9f Plenty of space for ads. HTTP is basically FTP with ads. Funny thought. Imagine if, to this day, the internet consisted of pretty much that. You go to ftp://nytimes.com and it just has a directory structure that consists of yyyy/mm/dd and the file names where things like statement-from-chinese-ambassador-to-australia.txt And maybe a directory named breaking-news Imagine if Twitter was a list of text files named yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss-username.txt Ha. Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this --- Please place an x between the brackets as desired [ ] Whopper Meal [ ] Super sized Whopper Meal [ ] Coke [ ] Sprite [ ] Eat-in [ ] Takeaway etc Name on card: Card number: Expiry: Card Security Code: Sponsored by Nike and the Ford Motor Company ---- Edit: changes 'threat' to 'thread' in first line, typo could have been confusing. Second edit: made list verbatim.
- ss64 7y ago
  Yes but if one of those files was ADSENSE-one-wierd-trick.jpg Nobody would actually bother to download it would they!
- Jaruzel 7y ago
  > Funny thought. Imagine if, to this day, the internet consisted of pretty much that. That's pretty much Gopher. Another protocol that Chrome no longer supports.
- hedora 7y ago
  You could write native apps on top of your proposed directory layouts, and it would be better than whatever people do today.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  > Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this I would love this. This has better UX than the food ordering sites we have to deal with in the real world.
- ucs 7y ago
  You’ve just described e-commerce circa 1990! On Usenet newsgroups and BBS conferences, sellers would post forms that looked exactly like that, except for the ads of course. Buyers would then send in their completed order form via either email/netmail or, preferably, via fax for added security. I remember always choosing to fax in my orders; even way back then, sharing credit card details via email seemed like a very bad idea.
- coldtea 7y ago
  >Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this Sounds like a total improvement over websites I have suffered... not to mention allows all kinds of third parties to create their own fancier ordering systems on top!