DzikiMarian

Interesting, thanks

That's really weird explanation on part of CF CEO, as just after DNS request you usually connect to the site which address you requested and site gets a lot more details including full IP address anyway.

Because if he's able to help anyone on SO, he very likely profited many, many times from free access to knowledge there before he got to this point. Given activity of average user he probably gained orders of magnitude more than he given.

I find rambling about money and compensation in such context distasteful.

SO provided platform which, while not perfect is used by millions of people. They aren't overloaded with ads and dark patterns as many of the clones. If it's worthless, why people are using it instead self hosted blogs for example?

Well guy complains about compensation for his "work". I assume he's ready to shell out a few dollars for when he'll need it :-)

Would you prefer SO to be paid?

How is it different from having extra two kilograms of medical equipment in your bag?

They have to be certified by Mastercard/Visa, so no chance for open source. A few banks have their own implementation. Apart from mentioned samsung has its own version.

It was done many times for Americans if it's so important to you. Two years into war and Russian trolls still cannot get their propaganda straight.

That's easily detectable. Try beating Google Safety Net that way.

"Can" and "have a reason" are different things. With attestation they actually have a reason.

I don't believe in ethical companies. Microsoft was cool once, then Google was cool, now some people seem to think that Apple is cool.

Best way to not get burnt is not to get vendor locked with one of them. Android allows me to install Firefox(real one, not Safari re-skin), replace launcher or even entire OS with Graphene. Google sucks in many ways, but if I'm not happy with them I just install software from another vendor. With ios I have to throw away half of the hardware I own.

I never wrote they are objectively inferior. I even admitted they can be marginally better in some areas. My point is they'll vendor lock the hell out of you and the trade off isn't worth it.

Meanwhile you wrote two walls of text to defend company that uses your children and technology worse than ICQ (released in 1996) to make you buy their products. You're free to do so, but I'm not sure which one of us is salty :-)