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Google has been killing all but the most widely known domains for a very long time. I've mentioned this repeatedly on ycombinator multiple times, but only people who have made their own website 15 years ago and tried to grow it know what I mean.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38923627#38933675

My recommendation is to start moving to some other closed platform that is not part of Google search like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube (yes I know Google owns it but its still not part of the search ecosystem).

Tying your entire business to how high you rank on Google search is always going to eventually end up in disaster like this.

I believe you are missing the crucial reason why all the people are consuming content in apps now.

Google is in large part to blame for this, if not the main reason.

Many years ago, Google started updating their search algorithm to heavily prefer specific domains like govs, edus, or handpicked ones like Reuters or Microsoft.

I used to run my own blog and forum, and it used to be on the top of the search results for the niche it occupied. After the changes, it fell off the front pages and I'd often see the top search result being a link to a random reddit comment mentioning the search phrase and no other content.

It was at that point I realized that there was no point in running your own website to create "content". You can't compete with domains whitelisted by Google unless you have a lot of money to spend on SEO.

Some people point to the "Panda" update as when this all started happening.

Yes it is, but other providers like microsoft and apple are even worse.

When I moved my email server to a new IP a few months ago, while gmail sent my email to spam, live and icloud straight up blocked them.

I did notice the rate limiting by gmail, it seems to be a relatively recent thing.

It happened to me. Was permanently banned and I never made use of a service like what the OP mentioned.

Now I am still using adsense but through a 3rd party that takes a large cut.

Even if you don't use services like that, a competitor can easily use it for you to get you banned.

Not everyone has access to that and the last time I checked, it was heavily limited and not allowed to do things like code.

I'm talking about the mainstream ones like nordvpn and mulvad.

GPT-3.5 is not good enough to replace Google. However GPT-4 is but it's not widely available.

What work do VPN providers do get themselves unblocked?

I don't see any reason for it to be less true now.

Is python syntax worse than any brand new languages like rust or go? Absolutely not. It's still better.

Did Google stop using it? I don't think so, but I also don't think people picked it just because Google did.

I can make some arguments but it all boils down to personal bias and anecdotes.

The forced use of spacing to delineate blocks means you will never see a bunch of brackets eating up screen space and the common error where someone adds another line to an if statement but doesn't add braces.

Semicolons not being conventional means less screen noise and less code golf 1 liners.

The focus on imperative vs functional means you rarely ever see something like this a(b(c(d(e(f(g))))

PHP suffers greatly from poorly named standard functions on top of all of that.

Don't get me started on Ruby metaprogramming.

These are just the things I could think of off the top of my head. I do not want to spend my afternoon on this. This is just my experience looking at code for over 20 years, you either believe it or you don't. There's no scientific studies to prove that 1 syntax feature is superior.

I highly doubt that everyone chose python just because Google did. Python was a giant step in syntax compared to the competition back then, and now even if there is a new language out there right now that has a better syntax, it's not going to be better by much, and it is not going to have the tooling, libraries, or the community.

I'm arguing against the point that it clearly did have the easiest syntax compared to the competition back then and not because Google was using it.

Even if it doesn't have the best syntax now (which I doubt), the tooling and libraries make it a better choice over any language that have an edge over python syntax.

There were plenty of other languages competing with python for the same niche such as perl, ruby, js, php etc... Python is superior to all of those just for syntax alone, it is easier and cleaner to both read and write.

It has always been a cesspool for a long time though. Only fit for consuming memes, cat pics, and financially motivated stunts like when Keanu Reeves was there the other day, using the social media account of the company for his upcoming film in a few weeks.

Each subreddit is controlled by a few essentially random people that likely have personal gain as one of their motivations.

If you think you aren't being advertised to on reddit just because the spam isn't as obvious as elsewhere, think again. The advertising there is more sophisticated than bots dropping links in comments.

There was a leak a while ago showed one of the moderators of wallstreetbets that was posting fake options gains, and it still gave him a massive following which he used to sell them a newsletter or something.

There are many subreddits where there will be a link in the sidebar to a monetized website affiliated with one of the mods.

And even 10 years ago, I remember at least 1 moderator of the programming subreddit somehow always had his blog posts highly voted and ending up on the front page, while any other submissions, especially ones that might counter his claims, would end up being stuck in the "spam filter". And if you messaged to have it unblocked, they'd only respond 1 day later, which means it would never show up on the front page due to the age factor of the ranking algorithm.

It was probably linked to by other websites. I've been seeing more news organizations directly linking to reddit, and I believe Google manually boosted reddit results a few years ago. You used to never see them in search results, but now they have started showing up.

There are options on bitcoin futures and the bitcoin etf bito.

I would never put financial passwords in a cloud based password manager. Even if they do everything perfectly encryption-wise, no one can guarantee an attacker wouldn't alter the client-side code to leak your master password.

Having said that, it is still useful for less important logins like this website for example, where it isn't a big deal if someone manages to use the account.

However it is a huge privacy issue if people know what accounts you have. For example, I have a hackforums account and pretended to be a normal user there while only using it to scout attack vectors to patch. But to some people, they might assume that I was partaking in actual hacking which is not the case.

Speaking as someone who was mainly a "developer" for a while, one frequent problem I see from developers is that they assume they can excel at everything because they are good at coding. Since coding is a hard task that not everyone can do well, they think this talent applies to everything else.

Just a few weeks ago on here, there was a developer complaining about not getting any attention through his efforts on social media, and from what he said he did, it was easy to tell he did not know what he was doing and severely lacked the sophistication needed to succeed. Instead of paying for marketing, he decided to do it himself and was about to give up without even thinking about paying someone else to do it.

This is hubris that is commonly seen in developers.

Marketing is a zero sum game to get people's attention. Attention is finite resource and you are competing with others for it.

It isn't a trivial task that anyone can do, at least efficiently (paying the minimum amount for the maximum number of conversions). It is just like programming where some people never seem to get it, except you are also competing against others.

If marketing is not something you are talented at or something you want to spend time and effort on, try paying for it. Even the biggest studios are buying ads and paying influencers.

I've been here all the time, but it is hard to keep talking when you are shouted down by all the people who bought into crypto late and are trying to pump it higher.

The last few comments I made on it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29830090

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21541591

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21542591

I know this is going to be hard to prove, but I was banned forever because they detected "click fraud" which did not come from me. It was likely initiated by a competitor.

Now I still use adsense, but now it is through a 3rd party which takes a hefty cut of the profits.

If adsense is your sole income, you should probably diversify. Anyone can get you permanently banned unless you are a well known youtuber.

The reason why there's more content on walled garden social media instead of personal websites is in no small part Google's fault and not just because of Facebook and Twitter.

Google released several updates (such as "Panda") that greatly lowers the rank of domains that aren't linked to by major domains they deem to be trusted, such as those with edu or gov TLDs or whatever whitelist of domains they decided to add. There have also been updates that specifically lowers the rank of websites that are running forum or blog software. This was probably done to fight spammers but it has effectively killed off the long tail of topics.

This is admittedly speculation since the inner workings of Google search are not released to the public. But these findings have been corroborated by others on the internet.

I used to have a blog and several forums that used to rank highly for some niche keywords and over the years the search rankings started to drop off the front page while a single reddit comment with no content mentioning the same keywords would be #1.

I'd say that Google is very much to blame for this situation as they took the easy way out to fight spammers.

I'd argue that a lot of the value priced into these currencies are based on the assumption that they'd be usable as a day-to-day currency someday.

I've always tried to state the problems with crypto here every time it comes up, but there is such a huge incentive for the people invested in crypto to pump it, that every year the number of crypto pumpers grows more numerous than people like me.

There really is a place for a decentralized currency to replace paypal, but none of the cryptos live up to it. In fact I just tried using crypto again a few days ago and it was a terrible experience just like it was 10 years ago. My bitcoin transaction took over 30 minutes to verify so I tried changing to ethereum, and the transaction fee there is $8...

Why is it taking so long for proof of stake to happen? They've been talking about it for many years and the fact that none of the mainstream coins have moved to proof of stake and there is no rising new coin that uses it, make me think there's a fundamental issue with it.

I just checked my account, no login attempts on my end. My master password is not stored or written down anywhere.

> - Move sshd to a non standard port to avoid the nmap/bot noise.

There are scanners like shodan that will scan every single port you have now so moving it to a non-standard port doesn't stop all the attackers.

The mac addresses on the ethernet layer are rewritten at each hop. You would only see the mac address of the router your router is connected to, not a chain linking back to the origin.

Blocking outgoing spoofed packets requires time and money.

No carrier will shut down an ISP paying them 100k/month just because of some spoofed traffic.

If you ran an email server 8 years ago your ip would have accrued enough reputation to bypass filters. It also seems to depend on how much email you send.