People are already using it to automate TikTok ad campaigns.

My platform has 24M pages on 8 domains and these NASTY crawlers insist on visiting every single one of them. For every 1 real visitor there are at least 300 requests from residential proxies. And that's after I blocked complete countries like Russia, China, Taiwan and Singapore.

Even Cloudflares bot filter only blocks some of them.

I'm using honeypot URLs right now to block all crawlers that ignore rel="nofollow", but they appear to have many millions of devices. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a gazillion residential routers, webcams and phones that are hacked to function as a simple doorways.

Things are really getting out of hand.

What crawlers are using residential proxies?

Now if they identified themselves, I could block them.

I'd put my money on Chinese AI model makers, but I don't trust any company that is in desperate need of fresh data.

As someone who is getting HAMMERED TO NO BELIEVE by residential proxies, I just want to express my hatred to all of you.

Curious. Care to share more? What approaches have you tried?

Is it because I'm in the EU?

I'm in the US and it's off for me. I believe I've previously opted out of everything copilot related in the past if there was anything.

I'm in Canada, so not only the EU at least.

Hetzner and Bunny are solid choices for EU projects.

For those looking for a PaaS instead of VPS provider like hetzner I can suggest Northflank. We moved from Render to Northflank and couldn't be happier.

Again non affiliated with either.

For me:

- SES was a big one. There was no affordable alternative at my (not big, not small) scale.

- I'm still waning myself personally of GMail. That dependency took decades to build and it will take years for all ties to sever.

What is the difficulty in getting away from gmail?

I did it a few years ago and I simply signed up for Fastmail and had gmail forward all email there. It forwards to a specific e-mail address so I can see if there are still people/companies that use the old email address. The painful part was going through all my accounts to update the e-mail, but you can do it in stages if you follow the above.

Maybe this comment downthread helps for the email problem? https://qht.co/item?id=47489711

Have you checked out zeptomail by zoho? Not as low cost, but getting close. More basics build in.

Not EU.

> Zoho Corporation is an Indian multinational technology company that makes cloud-based office software.

They have EU datacenters and an actually staffed legal entity in Germany .

They should just ban unsolicited prompts. That's it.

Push notifications are the #1 featured requests of my online community. Some even switched to Android over it.

And people don't understand adding sites to their homescreen, especially since Apple buried that feature in the Share menu.

No Android user of my website ever complained about the WebPush notifications.

I don’t care what your website does, not one tiny bit. I care that the majority of websites are shit, and therefore the web platform should be as minimal and isoltated from the device as possible.

Well my website isn't shit so I don't care about your opinion.

> Push notifications are the #1 featured requests of my online community. Some even switched to Android over it.

That sounds like the market working, no? Some people like how Apple does things, so they stick with Apple. Others prefer Android, so they switch.

The point is that users should have choice, not force users to bend to the will of malicious developers.

Does android still give you a push notification to dismiss whenever you take a screenshot?

No.

Yes. "Add to homescreen" is in the "Share" menu.

That's where they burry all bodies.

A friend was telling me yesterday that this is how you can set custom ringtones on iOS. He seemed really excited about it, how cute.

Because I literally could not believe the archaic process previously used until very recently to set a ringtone on iOS. And now it's under the share menu?! Why do Apple people put up with this shit?

I've been able to set a custom ringtone in Android from the OS settings/any file browser app for at least 15 years and I would not be surprised if Android launched with it.

>Apple still sells 30-second song ringtones for $1.29 each through the iTunes Store app.

Oh...alright well now we know why.

Isn't that where it's been for ages?

It’s been there since literally iPhoneOS 1.0. They are calling it “share” now, but really it’s always meant “put / send this somewhere”. The difference with recent versions of iOS is that the share button is no longer always visible but you need to press the ellipses button to reveal it. It’s there along with all the other dastardly actions Apple doesn’t want you to know about, such as “Add to Favourites”.

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The full, unredacted report has never been released to the general public.

The Trump White House asserted a “protective” claim of executive privilege over the redacted portions and underlying materials, which helped prevent Congress from obtaining the fully unredacted report, though this did not block release of the already‑redacted public version.

In other words, the criminals in charge prefer to work in the dark.