You could argue that the walling-off approach would reserve important content for rich people, but then it is the seller's fault who fails to extract money from his visitors in a proportional manner.
How would the seller determine what is "proportional" without tracking visitors across websites to obtain evidence of their likely income?
Rather than walling off the content you could use the "tip jar" already mentioned. It works for some people.
I don't care about product category XYZ, I only viewed a website once because I was looking for something not related to category XYZ - how about letting us tell you what we're interested in?
So would you be happy if every single website put up a survey wall in order to read more than one article in a month?
Disable JavaScript, and every single game you try to play will be replaced with a message like this:
Oops, looks like the game isn't loading right! Please make sure your JavaScript is enabled, then refresh. This could also be caused by a problem on our side, in which case - wait a moment, then refresh!
How is inaccessibility of all browser games acceptable to you? And how would it be acceptable to the majority of users?
Your eyeballs will likely end up looking at an NXDOMAIN or 404 page or a credit card form as more and more sites continue to close or go subscription to make up for lost advertising revenue.
If you aren't using some form of progressive enhancement to make sure your website's core functions work without javascript then you are putting your users at risk.
How would a browser-based game such as Clicking Bad be made with "some form of progressive enhancement"?
This is not my problem. This has never been my problem. This never will be my problem.
It will become your problem once more and more of the sites on which you rely make the decision to "charge membership" or "starve and close your website".
My browser blocks all traffic to Facebook
So does mine.
You are free to block me from using your site if I don't let you set cookies
Without cookies, how would you post as gstoddart rather than Anonymous Coward? Without cookies, how would an online store know to display the items in your shopping cart rather than the items in somebody else's shopping cart?
or run javascript
I wonder: How could an online whiteboard or browser game work without JavaScript?
How would a real-time chat application or collaborative whiteboard "gracefully degrade" without scripts and without Flash? All I can think of is "read-only, press Ctrl+R to refresh". And how would a game such as Pirates Love Daisies or Cookie Clicker gracefully degrade? By providing native versions for fourteen different platforms?
How should a smaller web site go about seeking advertisers if its operator wants to stop sucking on the AdSense tit? This article recommends the equivalent of leaving "Your ad here" banners, but "if you build it, they will come" doesn't pay the domain, hosting, and certificate costs, let alone feed and house the writers. How should a site's operator even know what to charge?
What you should be recommending is that people use a white-list based general Script Blocker. This will prevent all scripts, and in most cases other vulnerabilities like CSS exploits, on all sites unless YOU specifically allow it.
In principle, I think you might be right. But in practice, how should a web application that depends on scripts go about gaining the trust of each user in order to allow scripts on that site? Or should every web application, without exception, instead have either a fallback mode that operates entirely without scripts or a native app on all fourteen platforms?
Apart from Wikipedia, free works other than software haven't caught on to nearly the same extent as free software. Even video games tend to be non-free because there's so much to a video game other than software.
Anyway, a more reasonable person uses hosts files when they are the correct tool for the job, frequently combining them with a good ad blocker in order to gain the multiple layers that good security demands.
APK Hosts File Engine is not free software. It's proprietary, and APK intends to keep it that way. When I told him that proprietary software inherently has strings attached, here's what he said, with cleaned-up formatting:
I have no reason to give up my source code to anyone. I'm under no obligation to do so. I believe coders should build their own stuff, not ride on the coattails of others. My opening up my code would cause that, and I am "not with it". The only people who have seen my code are MalwareBytes' hpHosts admin, who verified it as safe since he wouldn't have hosted it in the first place otherwise, and he recommends it above all others of its kind in fact, it's done so well.
I think some updates have removed read write ability on my hosts file.
Windows Defender in Windows 8 and later treats.../etc/hosts as a protected file because some malware has operated by redirecting facebook.com to a phishing site. If you want to manage the hosts file yourself, exclude it from Windows Defender.
But hosts files do have other disadvantages. For one thing, the syntax doesn't allow wildcards or explicit NXDOMAIN. For another, most operating systems' built-in resolvers use an inefficient linear scan for every resolve call rather than loading the file into an efficient data structure such as a Bloom filter, and they don't allow each of a machine's users to maintain a separate blocking list. Finally, iOS and Android don't even let the user edit the file at all unless the user wipes and roots the device and voids its warranty.
Why would you need an Ethernet cable for a home router?
To recover in case you mess up the wireless configuration and end up inadvertently locking yourself out.
I use my iPad with the Airport Utility
Express or Extreme? Either way, if you rely on features specific to AirPort routers in order to avoid a wired connection, you may need to include the price difference between AirPort and comparable products from other brands (such as Linksys or NETGEAR) in the TCO.
No, on her iPad at home and on the server at school. At the same time.
That's fine so long as the parent continues to subscribe to Internet access for the iPad. Besides, which SSH clients for iPad support graphics once she gets to that chapter? I don't know because I don't own an iPad.
A parent is more likely to buy a throw rug and a computer for someone than to buy an iPad and a computer for someone. "Why do you need a PC? You already have an iPad." sounds more plausible than "Why do you need a PC? You already have a throw rug."
To clarify: I have nothing against dongles in principle. All I'm really trying to say is that the dongle has to be included in the total cost of ownership.
Everything in post #50941423 after "science" was uncalled for.
And as ISPs continue to push subscribers onto carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to work around IPv4 address exhaustion, "ISPs that block BitTorrent" are likely to become more and more common.
[The game's revenue model] doesn't matter... [...] There is no reason to leave that money on the table, if you don't have to.
Other than to improve the user experience for those subscribers behind networks that disallow access to BitTorrent, which could help them remain subscribers.
2. LOCAL ADMINISTRATION [...] * Can admin access be limited to Ethernet only? [...] * Can access be restricted by MAC address? [...] 10. MAC ADDRESS FILTERING I am well aware that MAC address filtering is far from perfect. That said, it does make it harder for bad guys to get on to your network.
This can increase even further if you're using your laptop to set up the home networks of relatives and neighbors. So you end up having to either carry the dongle with you or make excuses:
"Could you help me set up my router?" "I'm sorry, I can't right now." "But I can see you have your laptop with you." "I left my Ethernet dongle at home."
To put half a cent per update per user into perspective, we first need to understand how much continuing revenue per user per update period the publisher derives.
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You could argue that the walling-off approach would reserve important content for rich people, but then it is the seller's fault who fails to extract money from his visitors in a proportional manner.
How would the seller determine what is "proportional" without tracking visitors across websites to obtain evidence of their likely income?
Rather than walling off the content you could use the "tip jar" already mentioned. It works for some people.
And not for others.
Again, we only have one ISP in town
FlyHelicopters, Bengie, and Zero__Kelvin might reply that there are other towns.
I don't care about product category XYZ, I only viewed a website once because I was looking for something not related to category XYZ - how about letting us tell you what we're interested in?
So would you be happy if every single website put up a survey wall in order to read more than one article in a month?
Disable JavaScript, and every single game you try to play will be replaced with a message like this:
How is inaccessibility of all browser games acceptable to you? And how would it be acceptable to the majority of users?
Your eyeballs will likely end up looking at an NXDOMAIN or 404 page or a credit card form as more and more sites continue to close or go subscription to make up for lost advertising revenue.
If you aren't using some form of progressive enhancement to make sure your website's core functions work without javascript then you are putting your users at risk.
How would a browser-based game such as Clicking Bad be made with "some form of progressive enhancement"?
This is not my problem. This has never been my problem. This never will be my problem.
It will become your problem once more and more of the sites on which you rely make the decision to "charge membership" or "starve and close your website".
My browser blocks all traffic to Facebook
So does mine.
You are free to block me from using your site if I don't let you set cookies
Without cookies, how would you post as gstoddart rather than Anonymous Coward? Without cookies, how would an online store know to display the items in your shopping cart rather than the items in somebody else's shopping cart?
or run javascript
I wonder: How could an online whiteboard or browser game work without JavaScript?
Finally, iOS and Android don't even let the user edit the file at all unless the user wipes and roots the device and voids its warranty.
You say that like it's a bad thing ...
Like voiding the warranty is a bad thing, or like lockdown is a bad thing? Which exactly did you mean?
How would a real-time chat application or collaborative whiteboard "gracefully degrade" without scripts and without Flash? All I can think of is "read-only, press Ctrl+R to refresh". And how would a game such as Pirates Love Daisies or Cookie Clicker gracefully degrade? By providing native versions for fourteen different platforms?
Well, if they server their own ads, fine
How should a smaller web site go about seeking advertisers if its operator wants to stop sucking on the AdSense tit? This article recommends the equivalent of leaving "Your ad here" banners, but "if you build it, they will come" doesn't pay the domain, hosting, and certificate costs, let alone feed and house the writers. How should a site's operator even know what to charge?
What you should be recommending is that people use a white-list based general Script Blocker. This will prevent all scripts, and in most cases other vulnerabilities like CSS exploits, on all sites unless YOU specifically allow it.
In principle, I think you might be right. But in practice, how should a web application that depends on scripts go about gaining the trust of each user in order to allow scripts on that site? Or should every web application, without exception, instead have either a fallback mode that operates entirely without scripts or a native app on all fourteen platforms?
Apart from Wikipedia, free works other than software haven't caught on to nearly the same extent as free software. Even video games tend to be non-free because there's so much to a video game other than software.
Anyway, a more reasonable person uses hosts files when they are the correct tool for the job, frequently combining them with a good ad blocker in order to gain the multiple layers that good security demands.
APK agrees that hosts files are only one component in a layered security strategy. Eight years ago, he wrote a detailed article about the other layers.
Assuming the author is male constitutes a microagression.
If that's the first microaggression, it'll take 999,999 more of them before there's even one real problem.
Also, his stuff is free.
APK Hosts File Engine is not free software. It's proprietary, and APK intends to keep it that way. When I told him that proprietary software inherently has strings attached, here's what he said, with cleaned-up formatting:
So it's not the best choice for someone who is switching to free applications in preparation for switching to a free operating system.
I think some updates have removed read write ability on my hosts file.
Windows Defender in Windows 8 and later treats .../etc/hosts as a protected file because some malware has operated by redirecting facebook.com to a phishing site. If you want to manage the hosts file yourself, exclude it from Windows Defender.
But hosts files do have other disadvantages. For one thing, the syntax doesn't allow wildcards or explicit NXDOMAIN. For another, most operating systems' built-in resolvers use an inefficient linear scan for every resolve call rather than loading the file into an efficient data structure such as a Bloom filter, and they don't allow each of a machine's users to maintain a separate blocking list. Finally, iOS and Android don't even let the user edit the file at all unless the user wipes and roots the device and voids its warranty.
Why would you need an Ethernet cable for a home router?
To recover in case you mess up the wireless configuration and end up inadvertently locking yourself out.
I use my iPad with the Airport Utility
Express or Extreme? Either way, if you rely on features specific to AirPort routers in order to avoid a wired connection, you may need to include the price difference between AirPort and comparable products from other brands (such as Linksys or NETGEAR) in the TCO.
No, on her iPad at home and on the server at school. At the same time.
That's fine so long as the parent continues to subscribe to Internet access for the iPad. Besides, which SSH clients for iPad support graphics once she gets to that chapter? I don't know because I don't own an iPad.
A parent is more likely to buy a throw rug and a computer for someone than to buy an iPad and a computer for someone. "Why do you need a PC? You already have an iPad." sounds more plausible than "Why do you need a PC? You already have a throw rug."
If they're already slashdotting S3, then how is Amazon going to stand up to actual holiday traffic?
Then how do 95 percent of MacBook users set up Wi-Fi on their home routers?
To clarify: I have nothing against dongles in principle. All I'm really trying to say is that the dongle has to be included in the total cost of ownership.
Everything in post #50941423 after "science" was uncalled for.
And as ISPs continue to push subscribers onto carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to work around IPv4 address exhaustion, "ISPs that block BitTorrent" are likely to become more and more common.
[The game's revenue model] doesn't matter... [...] There is no reason to leave that money on the table, if you don't have to.
Other than to improve the user experience for those subscribers behind networks that disallow access to BitTorrent, which could help them remain subscribers.
I can count on about 3 fingers the number of times I've plugged my MacBook Pro into a terrestrial Ethernet cable.
Such as every time you buy a router, to set up the MAC whitelist and other wireless security settings. From Michael Horowitz's Router Security Checklist:
This can increase even further if you're using your laptop to set up the home networks of relatives and neighbors. So you end up having to either carry the dongle with you or make excuses:
"Could you help me set up my router?"
"I'm sorry, I can't right now."
"But I can see you have your laptop with you."
"I left my Ethernet dongle at home."
To put half a cent per update per user into perspective, we first need to understand how much continuing revenue per user per update period the publisher derives.