Because they slow down and often block access to websites, particularly for people that try to avoid being fingerprinted or otherwise tracked. Pretty evil behavior.
nickff 18 minutes ago [-]
It is very challenging to distinguish individuals interested in privacy from bots acting maliciously or with reckless indifference. If you devise a way to do this more effectively than Cloudflare, you should start a business to sell this as a service.
lynx97 1 minutes ago [-]
Sure, I am practicing understanding for the tyranny around me everyday when I wake up, as a meditation exercise.
Answers like yours kill the little remaining faith I have in people.
This same argument has been used to defend sloppily implemented CAPTCHAS destroying accessibility since what, 20 years.
neya 2 minutes ago [-]
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
webdoodle 11 minutes ago [-]
Don't listen to these hecklers, you have every right to your privacy, and should demand it. Anonymity is paramount if people want to be able to talk without repercussions. Gaslighting, heckling and other forms of harassment are to convince you to self censor. Don't take the bait. Ignore them.
esseph 29 minutes ago [-]
> Because they slow down and often block access to websites, particularly for people that try to avoid being fingerprinted or otherwise tracked. Pretty evil behavior.
Bots and scrapers and hackers also try and avoid being tracked, which is by far a bigger problem for them and most websites than the 15 of us using tons of antifingerprinting techniques. Evil? No, that's silly.
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artisinal 20 minutes ago [-]
In the USA, is it really that easy to find the home address of a business owner?
The EU briefly had a similar registry but that got shut down quickly.
stingrae 12 minutes ago [-]
Basically yes. There are a large number of public repositories of data that can dox a persons address. Like property tax rolls, company filings etc. some of these are actually required by Europe (https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-co..., which I do not appreciate)
lotsofpulp 13 minutes ago [-]
Land records are public in most US locales. You can type in almost any residential address on homes.com and it will show you who owned it when and with what loan terms.
hattmall 12 minutes ago [-]
Not really, it looks like this guy originally registered the business at his personal residence which is not really common. Kinda surprised if he still lives there considering how FLOCK has expanded.
webdoodle 10 minutes ago [-]
Ironically most of the people reading this are doing so on an always connected phone with a fused battery, that they can't trust, because they don't control it. It also has significantly more capabilities that a flock camera, and they likely pay for it too.
ethanwillis 4 minutes ago [-]
It's called choice. Maybe a dumb choice, but a choice!
Answers like yours kill the little remaining faith I have in people.
This same argument has been used to defend sloppily implemented CAPTCHAS destroying accessibility since what, 20 years.
Bots and scrapers and hackers also try and avoid being tracked, which is by far a bigger problem for them and most websites than the 15 of us using tons of antifingerprinting techniques. Evil? No, that's silly.
The EU briefly had a similar registry but that got shut down quickly.