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Anyone else having issues in general with "the internet" over the last few days? The images on different websites I've visited don't load (e.g. twitter, bbc et

Anyone else having issues in general with "the internet" over the last few days? The images on different websites I've visited don't load (e.g. twitter, bbc etc). When they do they load, they load verrry slowly

nathanyz 6y ago
Yes, they Internet has felt for lack of better word “weird” for the past couple days. Nothing specific but similar to your experience with random things not loading but refresh and it’s fine etc. Or strangely slow response on websites.
- octoberfranklin 6y ago
  That's generally DNS tampering by backbone providers (Centurylink and Verizon in the USA). Use dnscrypt.
guidoism 6y ago
I reeeeally don't want to go down this rathole but a few days ago when my kids were having problems connecting to YouTube on both wifi and LTE I had begun to think that Trump pulled the 1. Stop Internet, 2. Attempt Coup thing.
- rossdavidh 6y ago
  While, unlike many other people, I do _not_ believe Trump is an idiot, or even dumb at all, I do not believe he has any knowledge of how to stop the internet even if he wanted to. Plus, how would he send tweets if no internet? I think he likes being able to use Twitter more than he likes being President.
  - 22c 6y ago
    My cursory understanding of the whole "internet going dark" conspiracy is that this would not be used by Trump, but be used by the shadow government in co-operation with "Big Tech" in order to create panic and confusion amongst the masses so they can't organise, feel helpless and ultimately ask for "big government" and "big tech" to step in and save them. For whatever reason, gp seems to be under the impression that it's Trump who would use this to his own advantage, which is not consistent with the prevailing conspiracy theories.
pmlnr 6y ago
Oh, the internet is fine and happy. The "internet" deserves these outages to make people - and CEOs, CIOs, etc - realize that in-house ~~engineering~~ sysadmins used to exist for good reasons.

nathanyz 6y ago

Yes, they Internet has felt for lack of better word “weird” for the past couple days. Nothing specific but similar to your experience with random things not loading but refresh and it’s fine etc. Or strangely slow response on websites.

octoberfranklin 6y ago
That's generally DNS tampering by backbone providers (Centurylink and Verizon in the USA). Use dnscrypt.

guidoism 6y ago

I reeeeally don't want to go down this rathole but a few days ago when my kids were having problems connecting to YouTube on both wifi and LTE I had begun to think that Trump pulled the 1. Stop Internet, 2. Attempt Coup thing.

rossdavidh 6y ago
While, unlike many other people, I do _not_ believe Trump is an idiot, or even dumb at all, I do not believe he has any knowledge of how to stop the internet even if he wanted to. Plus, how would he send tweets if no internet? I think he likes being able to use Twitter more than he likes being President.
- 22c 6y ago
  My cursory understanding of the whole "internet going dark" conspiracy is that this would not be used by Trump, but be used by the shadow government in co-operation with "Big Tech" in order to create panic and confusion amongst the masses so they can't organise, feel helpless and ultimately ask for "big government" and "big tech" to step in and save them. For whatever reason, gp seems to be under the impression that it's Trump who would use this to his own advantage, which is not consistent with the prevailing conspiracy theories.

pmlnr 6y ago

Oh, the internet is fine and happy. The "internet" deserves these outages to make people - and CEOs, CIOs, etc - realize that in-house ~~engineering~~ sysadmins used to exist for good reasons.