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Except it wouldn’t make them resilient since, as I pointed out, neither of the things they did would be of any help at all to Easylist in this situation. It’s

Except it wouldn’t make them resilient since, as I pointed out, neither of the things they did would be of any help at all to Easylist in this situation. It’s great that they’re happy with their choices, but the choices would, in this same situation, likely saddle them with a crippled infrastructure and/or some insane bandwidth bills for suddenly pushing 100 extra TB/m.

girvo 4y ago
It was never suggested that what the original commenter was doing would help EasyList.
- chrismeller 4y ago
  I didn’t say the OP did, though it was implied. I was responding to a comment which did… context, my friend. Edit: so if OP wasn’t implying that their approach was better, what was the point of posting it? Wow, obtuse much?
  - girvo 4y ago
    It was not implied, you added that implication yourself and started responding to things that were not said, which is why the other commenter who replied to you was also confused, my friend. Edit: OP was implying their approach was better for themselves than relying on third party servers. It’s hardly obtuse, it’s a related discussion from someone who would otherwise be impacted by the throttling.
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lolinder 4y ago
EasyList got here because they want all (respectful) apps to be able to use their list. They invited traffic, the problem is only occurring because this unknown browser violates the implicit "as long as you're considerate" rule. OP, in contrast, wrote their own ad blocker targeting their own servers. They're in control of their ad blocker code and can write it to be respectful of their servers. They're not hosting the lists with the intent of allowing other people to use it, and they're unlikely to attract lazy app developers because the endpoints are (presumably) not listed publicly on the internet to anyone who wants an easy ad blocker list.
accountofme 4y ago
Actually if the developers of the web browsers in India did the same thing, easylist would have it easy...
bombcar 4y ago
100 TB/month is only like 40 mb/s I can find VPS that advertise 200 mb/s dedicated for not much (but still way more than “free”)
- happymellon 4y ago
  This sounds like a similar issue as Linux distros used to have, I'm not sure how many still do this, but use alternative sites. On download.easylist.com have it shuffle and send a redirect to a mirror to download the list. I wonder if Universities are still offering these small amounts of space for Open Source projects?

girvo 4y ago

It was never suggested that what the original commenter was doing would help EasyList.

chrismeller 4y ago
I didn’t say the OP did, though it was implied. I was responding to a comment which did… context, my friend. Edit: so if OP wasn’t implying that their approach was better, what was the point of posting it? Wow, obtuse much?
- girvo 4y ago
  It was not implied, you added that implication yourself and started responding to things that were not said, which is why the other commenter who replied to you was also confused, my friend. Edit: OP was implying their approach was better for themselves than relying on third party servers. It’s hardly obtuse, it’s a related discussion from someone who would otherwise be impacted by the throttling.
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lolinder 4y ago

EasyList got here because they want all (respectful) apps to be able to use their list. They invited traffic, the problem is only occurring because this unknown browser violates the implicit "as long as you're considerate" rule. OP, in contrast, wrote their own ad blocker targeting their own servers. They're in control of their ad blocker code and can write it to be respectful of their servers. They're not hosting the lists with the intent of allowing other people to use it, and they're unlikely to attract lazy app developers because the endpoints are (presumably) not listed publicly on the internet to anyone who wants an easy ad blocker list.

accountofme 4y ago

Actually if the developers of the web browsers in India did the same thing, easylist would have it easy...

bombcar 4y ago

100 TB/month is only like 40 mb/s I can find VPS that advertise 200 mb/s dedicated for not much (but still way more than “free”)

happymellon 4y ago
This sounds like a similar issue as Linux distros used to have, I'm not sure how many still do this, but use alternative sites. On download.easylist.com have it shuffle and send a redirect to a mirror to download the list. I wonder if Universities are still offering these small amounts of space for Open Source projects?