ian-bateman

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by ian-bateman 5y ago
That's all true - we mention these directly on our FAQ ([redacted]) -- many are issues we plan to address as soon as possible -- the application 100% works in terms of functionality, but is definitely still under heavy development!
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by ian-bateman 5y ago
> i wonder how you see this playing out in the future In the near future, we're planning to expand into more general adblocking; we're currently focused on growth & there's still a lot of internal discussion happening,
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by ian-bateman 5y ago
Looks like some others beat me to it, and I just commented elsewhere on this thread - but I'd recommend checking out [redacted] - works on nytimes!
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by ian-bateman 5y ago
Shameless plug (Founder here), but I’d highly recommend checking out [redacted] as an alternative! We work on a number of major publications that 12ft does not, including NYT, WSJ, and several others. We have a full list of supported public
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by ian-bateman 5y ago
Thanks jimpix45! Glad to hear you're enjoying Incoggo :)
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by ian-bateman 5y ago
It's a 'local proxy' - meaning it runs entirely on your device, and filters network traffic. Beyond this, there are a wide variety of client-side filtering techniques that we use; we mix and match these based on the specific
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by ian-bateman 5y ago
So as a few people have asked, this actually lets us use a variety of client-side unblocking techniques (like inbound request modification) that browser extensions can't (due to extension API limitations), and effectively unblock publi
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by ian-bateman 5y ago
Yes, it definitely 100% helps in that regard!
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by ian-bateman 5y ago
That's understandable - if you'd like a work around for now, the app has a 'pause' feature (which, if active, will cease to proxy traffic completely - you can just turn it on briefly as needed, then 'pause' it
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by ian-bateman 5y ago
>couldn’t you pause/unpause the stdout with ctrl-s/ctrl-q instead? edit: child comment is a better solution.
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Tom Morey: Boogie Board turns 50(ocregister.com)
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by ian-bateman 5y ago
Seems like this article was written by an AI… and not a very good one at that.
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
I think the point Ford was trying to make is that you should listen to your customers, but also think for yourself. If a customer says ‘I want a faster horse’, you need to ask, ‘what is it that they really want / what is it they’re act
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
Thanks! Yeah it's definitely been a challenge, but I think it's worth the effort to try to make sure we're keeping incentives properly aligned and really get things right before we try to scale up! > I think monetizing a p
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
Posted a bit about how we plan to approach this above, so just re-pasting: > - we plan to build in something similar to HTTPS Everywhere to the product, to automatically upgrade connections (and we only route traffic on ports 80 &#x2
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
Yep, if we do go that way, it'd likely be somewhat similar to Brave. Still very much evaluating options here though.
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
We are still evaluating the best way to go about this, but yes, we've been looking at the way Brave approaches it as well (though of course, we'd like to do it in such a way that everyone's incentives align / we don&#x27
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
The reasoning behind a p2p model is largely so that we don't have the massive overhead of traditional VPN companies & are able to offer the service entirely for free. Not having the overhead allows us to explore different potential
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
Hi edf13 - We're still exploring different methods of monetization, but leaning towards an Adblock-Plus style model at the moment (but would want to keep any ads we served entirely local / we'd never send any data off device
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
Hi coddle-hark - - Right now we're still undecided / exploring different ways of monetizing the product! (something similar to Adblock-Plus though is our leading idea). - We're working on a way to disallow users from acting a
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
No catch! We're genuinely trying to build a product that will help protect user privacy online :)
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
There are a lot more technical details on the project README page here!: https://github.com/freepn/fpnd/blob/master/README.rst
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
(Hopefully) it's a bit easier to use than SoftEther! Also, unlike SoftEther, we don't depend on volunteers for our network - the network is largely made up of the users themselves!
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
Hi eightails - Our posts a few months back were largely exploratory posts - seeing if there was actually demand for the product (or at least enough to pursue the project!). Since FreePN is such a technical product, we've been iterating
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
FreePN is intended (long-term) to be a general purpose privacy-protection tool.
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
We're a private company based in SF actually!
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
Ah that's been happening sometimes with the email input - thanks for the heads up though. Site's getting hugged right now, so that might be the issue!
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by ian-bateman 6y ago
Hi Ian from FreePN here - This is all very unexpected actually! (No one from FreePN made the post here!) We've been doing some early market testing in a few Linux communities on Reddit, but full disclosure, the product is currently in
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by ian-bateman 7y ago
Maybe they should consider following Mozilla and just self-host their own instance of Riot. A $5-$50/mo Linode + a tiny bit of ops overhead has to be less expensive than anything anyone else is charging (whether Facebook, Slack, Teams,
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by ian-bateman 7y ago
Interesting that Bloomberg is missing from his own billionaire index list: https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/

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