Hacker News Reader

Comment by barbecue_sauce | Hacker News Reader

I dislike when articles like this (or any, really) embed images from Instagram. I have all Facebook domains blocked in my hosts file, so all I ever get is broken DOM elements.

View on HN

As opposed to rehosting (stealing?) the picture from its original source? It is after all an embedded instagram post of the Official Ministry of antiquities in Egypt showing a shot from inside the site.

Then perhaps the ministry of antiquities needs to stop using terrible services.

Of course, the Ministry of Antiquities should stop using the service the rest of the world finds perfectly acceptable but that 1% of vocal HN'ers are rabidly opposed too.

Either the service is acceptable or the service is unacceptable (harmful). What percentage of HN'ers you think oppose/like it seems largely irrelevant.

Now we should all forgot about ethics and privacy because almost everyone find it acceptable, mostly because they doesn't care ?

No, it's just mean almost everyone find it inline with their ethics but not yours.

Boycotts rarely work. We'd be better off raising awareness of Facebook's misdeeds and using that to awareness to build a grass roots campaign for policy change. In parallel with that, we should be having a discussion about what sort of legislation would be most effective at curtailing Facebook's (and everyone else's) bad behaviour.

Or maybe, people could choose not to use services that don't respect their privacy if they care about privacy? Surely, that's not expecting too much from people?

Not to knock IG, but any entity, especially a governmental branch, should be the canonical source for what they produce. It’s fine to use services like IG, but when it goes away or people stop using it (hello, MySpace) you’re left with link rot. By all means, get it out there, but don’t hand over the pink slip with the valet key.

That is ironic. I bet in next 1000 years these tombs with all their hieroglyphic story will stay as-is, but digital material about their discovery may be gone in 10.

>the rest of the world finds perfectly acceptable but that 1% of vocal HN'ers are rabidly opposed too.

Perfectly acceptable, but yet they screech about how Facebook steals their data and demands that the government do something about it. I think they do have problems with the service: they'd like to get the full advantages without having to bear any cost for them.

For most of the history of the web, news sites hosted their own images as sanctioned by the source.

Maybe you should send the site a list of domains you allow so they can tailor their articles for you?

This is an incredibly personal issue, who cares? You’ve made the internet harder for yourself to use...

They made the Internet harder to trust. Blocking certain domains has become almost a necessity.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com