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> Cloudflare (which was blocking Tor and users were rightly unhappy with this because saying you're a privacy oriented company and blocking Tor access was just
by jancsika 7y ago
> Cloudflare (which was blocking Tor and users were rightly unhappy with this because saying you're a privacy oriented company and blocking Tor access was just not right)
Huge loss of credibility right there.
Me-as-CEO: We're shipping "only dozen or couple of hundred orders per month" and hemorraging money. We must prioritize.
CTO: Well you currently have no backups whatsoever.
Me-as-CEO: That certainly sounds like a priority. What do you propose?
CTO: Let's move away from one of the largest CDN in the U.S. to accommodate a potential Tor userbase
Me-as-CEO: Well, it's been great working with you.
- throw_xyzyz 7y agoAnd that's why you're not an open source company CEO.
- ldng 7y agoThen you are a bad CEO not understanding your target audience
- dogma1138 7y agoSince you can’t anonymously purchase anything from Purism I don’t think it was that much of an issue. People aren’t going to use ToR to purchase a device from a store that collects PII that defeats the purpose of using it its right there with using ToR to log into your Facebook account.
- rasengan 7y agoStill, using tor will help prevent yet one more data point from being used to construct a character profile of you. Between privacy and less privacy, I think the answer is always privacy.
- zlatan_todoric 7y agoTbh, it was very easy to slip this one in if someone didn't pay attention as it was integrated with hosting provider at that time. I removed it inside something like month (aka when I got time from other more pressing deals).