Whenever I encounter one of these fuck off pages, I make a point to remove all possibility of ever purchasing anything from them.

(including you, Google).

This will be my Christmas project. Thanks, author.

Are those "Donald Trump is a rancid, orange Turnip" posts coming back to haunt you? Me too.

I'd brave it out and stick to your guns.

After all, facts are facts.

Ok, at what point is "We use Cloudflare" going to be a supply-chain red marker?

At what point does the cost outweigh the benefit?

Care to share? Or at lease describe to what extent they 'offer the ability to pay'?

I think many would like to live in that world. Good to see what an n=1 example of it looks like in practice.

I mean, at it's extreme, he wouldn't even be on the internet. But dialing that back, it could be as simple as a 'buy me a coffee' link.

Oh please, does anyone actually believe this horseshit?

I've had the same issue with Google.

I've not paid them a dime for 10 years because they fucked the payment system (imo).

It was just enough friction for me to mostly offload my data from Google's apps/cloud and run it myself.

So, in an odd way, I should thank them ...

I recently dropped $5.5K to set up a 140TB NAS on my home network for the same reason. Though, to be fair, hearing that they regularly have humans going through your E-Mail, private messages, and files was a pretty strong incentive, too.

It's not unthinkable that one of those "layabouts" could have been the next Steve Jobs under different circumstances ...

People are our first, best resource. Closely followed by technology. You've lost sight of that.

The only correct response.

I found BF week was "ok" ... found a few genuine bargains ... but Cyber Monday really sucked ... I saw absolutely nothing new in terms of wow prices ... n=1