BUT… most people really don’t care about that, they just want to remove ads from facebook or youtube or whatever…
My clients couldn’t care less about what the CEO does, heck they still think facebook is the dogs danglies and youtube is cutting edge plus Netflix is the best streaming service.
Fighting that is way harder than then trying to explain that some software is worse than others. Heck plenty still use Photoshop because they don’t understand that alternatives exist and “everyone at work uses it”

Now whilst I enjoy all the comments I actually have to add something quickly that explains why this kind of thing happens. I recently worked with a rather old lady to find out why she was having so many issues with technology and stuff. I found out that when she started work in 1986 she was told that the shared password in her department at the local hospital was “password” and so she has used that on everything she can since to remember it… other gems that they used on whole departments included “qwerty” and “123456” and the best one of all “letmeinnow”. On whole shared networks of 100+ machines…

I still have literally thousands of clients that use Windows and want support… for these kinds of things. Firefox has recently stopped working on a few things and Brave works better for me right now. It’s not convenience when FF doesn’t work…
But I digress, Win 11 here and Brave. My choices, for lots of reasons. Lots of linux boxes as well though. Each to their own and all that

Damn the wife WILL be pissed

UK here so unless I change my country I can’t use it ;)

Well erm yeah… seems to have gone quiet. Cloudflare is a weird beast at times… mind you I’m in the UK which is way weirder!

Everything I tried it on it didn’t work I had to add on the homepage, so for me, it isn’t as simple

Yeah and of course I’m not US based and not really after US content

Installed, works fine. Thanks!

yup - I understand that, not as simple though is it?

I asked for exactly this reason… 13ft was deffo not a whole foot better

first thing I tried it failed on, probably because it is a news site and recent… thanks for the suggestion though

I’ve seen that dude in a million and one hipster coffee shops…

at one time they did - but then paid search results came along…

I have asked - no suggestions as of yet…

Yup - some will…not many any more though!

I have to say that I might be the one here to say something different, but I still use Cloudflare tunnels because I have been with them for so long. I know lots of people hate them, for various reasons, but in this simple example, cloudflare will have many people who have used it, and it really just kinda works. So for getting started, it probably will be easier and quicker… A free account is good enough, will make the services available easily, and is secure enough for most people within reason. Once you are up and running you can change it moving forward.

Forgot to add - Cloudflare also acts as a CDN meaning a slow internet connection isn’t as bad as it could be. This is another reason I like it - it’s free and does help out if you have a slower connection. It isn’t a fix all solution, you still need to ensure that you are protected as well as you can be, have certs, use https, lock the server down as much as you can. Use fail2ban or something similar to stop brute force attacks… do as much as you can to help yourself. But it is easy to use to get you on your way to self hosting, which for me is a win.

Now this I like, just because I have plenty of people who really aren’t techy enough and dislike a lot about the fediverse… I know it’s not for everyone but having a simple front end works for loads! Good work here - I like it, I like it a lot

I run an SMTP relay… very few takers, most just pay for managed email hosting. I run an smtp relay so multiple wordpress sites and services I self host can send mail. My lemmy instance is one

I’d love to say I believe them in their backing down statement - but being cynical I really don’t