NettleBurr

If you could do things differently would you be more lax or even stricter, or were your restrictions just about right in hindsight?

A bit like Mr Burns blocking out the sun… sounds like it would be used for all kinds of geopolitical fights. I can’t imagine that being a good or stable solution

Could try a VPN - this is one of the few things that also works on ios. The Mullvad vpn app on iOS gives a decent experience and can block ads though not always successful.

It's not really comparable to a pi-hole in that you get no control over it but it's trivial to set up and get going with it and also works when you're travelling.

>Apple on Wednesday appeared to have blocked what Beeper described as "~5% of Beeper Mini users" from accessing iMessages

>Apple previously issued a (somewhat uncommon) statement about Beeper's iMessage access, stating that it "took steps to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials in order to gain access to iMessage." Citing privacy, security, and spam concerns, Apple stated it would "continue to make updates in the future" to protect users. Migicovsky previously denied to Ars that Beeper used "fake credentials" or in any way made iMessages less secure.

Not commenting about the ethics of all this, just wondering why technically Apple can only block ~5% of Beeper Mini users instead of all of them? Could this potentially be tied to the use of an email id as the iMessage handle?