A suggestion for people who are upset with this behavior:
Use Booking.com (and Google, Expedia, etc) as a showroom, after you have found a certain hotel, find their web site or phone and arrange a booking directly.
This headline made me think that Cloudflare had finally done what I first assumed Akamai did back in the noughties, before I learned they didn't really have magic tech. :/
Anyway: here's some indirect feedback. It doesn't really apply to your project
(which I'm sure will be super useful to other people). I would expect Cloudflare to take the lead in... let's call it widely-distributed-computation. All I want is my code running on your nodes all around the world with an end-to-end ping that is less than 10 ms to the average client.
It happened to me as well. I did verify that my changes actually made change (from the same IP, but in incognito mode). Didn't bother to check if the changes stayed.
I first realized Javascript/Frontend/client developers were a danger to society about 10 years ago.
We were trying to figure out why some particular, quite globally popular web site did not work when transcoded in our Opera Mini transcoder.
The page itself looked perfectly static, no fancy effects or anything. Turns out the site had decided to re-implement the "click a link" feature entirely in javascript, down to the "create a click listener for entire document, then create a click router based on X, Y, width, height coordinates" level. We patched it somehow, had a laugh about the stupidity, but the sour feeling of insanity got stuck with me. It did not provide any feature beyond what a simple 'a' tag would have done.
It was just so absurd. We spent some time to try to figure out if there was a legitimate reason for it but we couldn't find any.
Somewhat ironically/fitting one of the triggers for this idea was my dislike for the amount of corporate/institutional "spam" on dmoz.org. Browsing dmoz today it doesn't feel like browsing a treasure chest of information; it feels like browsing one of those vanity contact books that people are scammed into paying for placement in.
Just because 50 different museums from around the world are super reputable (to someone) that doesn't mean they should have a guaranteed place in the "art" category, for instance. They should need to have a kickass art collection online with great UX, super-highres images, easily downloadable if it's stuff that's out of copyright and so on. Just list the best ten (twenty? thirty? no idea what the right number is. it probably depends on the category) things, not every single art institution on earth that someone has bothered to submit.
I guess I would summarize this as opinionated, content quality-based selection.
I miss the 1996-1997 type web sites. Ads and money has changed the web so much.
I recently had the idea to start a like 1994-style Yahoo-style web site that only links to sites which fulfill these conditions:
a) they have a lot of quality content
b) they only have minimal or no ads (absolutely no signups, freemium sites, 14-day trials etc).
c) no obnoxious self-advertising of a company's own brand (e.g. "Will It Blend? | Presented by Blendtec").
d) (this one is hard to quantify, but it's a kind of "I know it when I see it" thing) they were made with love and a desire to spread thoughts and creations.. rather than a desire for making money.
Obviously this directory site would not be a vehicle for making money. I also don't want this to be a hipster coolness thing. It's not the retro-ugly layouts I'm after, it's the content.
I guess their bizarre thinking is something along the lines of: "unless we have proof that noone can access the service, we won't change the indicator from green to yellow.
Seriously: I don't understand why you guys stay with AWS.
I kind of dislike the attitude Raymond is showing here, to be honest.
Microsoft did a very poor job of disclosing these very relevant (at the time) facts to programmers back then. I guess they still hadn't really understood the power of having a well-documented/readily available platform.
I know that I was hunting for information on this particular topic - just having gotten dial-up Internet access for the first time in the spring of 1995.
(But hey, there were still a shining light compared to Creative Labs :) )
This seems like a good place to tell Uber users that the only way of removing your credit card details from your Uber account is to either:
a) plead with Uber's customer service to do so
or
b) add another payment method (like another credit card)
This, of course, is horribly bad practice. I can only imagine that they arrived at this very peculiar arrangement after extensive A/B testing - Uber has hired plenty of FB folks and those people tend to be really into that kind of thing. I haven't seen this kind of outright customer-hostility from a large Internet company.. well, ever, before.
So, no, I'm not surprised that this company is doing other unethical things - it sort of seems interwoven into their DNA.
Arent' they making lots of money off these poor addicts already?