I remember a time when web browsers had the functionality to just browse the web...

Ohhh... They read/write through the standard OS fs-libraries, thereby - as you write - hit that cache as well as their own? Sounds like something they should fix a.s.a.p
. and shouldn't be that hard to implement. Libraries for Direct I/O, or Asynch I/O, bypassing the OS fs, exists almost everywhere nowadays, right?
I was thinking of switching to PostgreSQL, but I understand I need to investigate this a bit further. ðY'

Sure, I guess everyone here is rooting for them since they "care so much" about their users privacy. Fine, that may be so.

But we have their whole network blocked at our front end, since we get so many hack-attempts and DoS-attacks from their network.

I've been in contact with Mullvad about this, but they just waved me off expressing that they don't have anything to do with what their customers use their network for. And yeah, I get that. Even so, a network operator that hides and safehouse hackers and other illicit behaviour...well...nah, I'm not that impressed.

If the police was there issuing a search warrant I would guess it was someone really nasty they wanted to find, so, safe harbour for pedophiles? Who knows. Hopefully not, of course. Either way, I think we should think twice before rooting for these kind of companies.

Never heard of. I'm keeping it that way.

I think you're confusing programmers with software engineers/developers/analysts etc. The latter having enough knowledge about IDE:s, programming language syntax, if-then-else logic and frameworks/API:s to glue them all together so they mimic the functionality that someone, somewhere, decided should be done. It's a very complex machine, nowadays, so I'm not saying they're not needed. In fact the opposite is true. They're very much needed, and they need to be truly knowledgeable in their field. But they don't do much programming, at least not in my book. That's why things get bloated. They don't really understand what programming is, and how the CPU works, memory, cache, preemptive multitasking, i/o, etc.

Ahh... Ahrefsbot... Lovely. Blocked that shit years ago on all our servers. It wasn't respecting robots.txt and also behaved extremely annoying, almost DoS:ing our systems. Nah. I hope they crash and burn.

Everyone understands that this is a covert ad for how good Apple is at privacy, while slamming their competitors, right? Right?

So, to stop my sexually explicit images to be shared all over the Internet I'm supposed to upload them to a website?

Yeah... That'll be a no.

This needs to be an app, or a installable program on your computer, so you can make the digital fingerprints locally.

It's like we should build a universal and standardized medium, that everyone has access to, and from there one could install whatever they want directly to their devices....oh, wait.

It's extremely interesting, to me, that this whole "walled garden" - be it Apple, Android or PC - concept has been able to exist for so long. Why do consumers accept it? I don't get it. Well well...

I hope others follow suit!

OMG, if this was in the EU our GDPR legislation would slap them so hard!

Nice to see a website actually delivering on their promise.

Agree with you completely.
(Also started hammering on the C64 during the 80s ;) )

Though might be considered flame bait, I would even go so far as to say that hard typed and / or forced structured languages (i.e Python), and languages with excessive syntax and forced gigasize declarations, tries to solve the problem of bad programmers writing bad code by forcing them to use some coding paradigm (to catch errors during a compile phase), which might seem all good, but instead fosters the idea of them _not_ having to actually think about or learn what is really happening in their code, in the computer, in the CPU/memory. The just copy shit they find online to get the compiler to stop nagging them. So, yes, you get dumber programmers. Dumber code. Bad programs.

I mean, shit, I just had to create a Windows 10 recovery USB stick and needed a 16 GB stick for that. 16 GB! What's up with that?? (Could I fix the erroneous Windows 10 update that put my computer in a reboot-loop? Of course not.)

One might argue that all this compiler-forced hogwash produces better and more stable code/programs. Sure, fine, argue all you want. I just haven't seen it in real life. I hope I'm wrong on this, and that it's just my old brain being too stupid to realize all the fantastic stuff you get with all this new amazing stuff. Still, I sit here in notepad writing "var" instead of "let", and my shit just works - year after year.

Even if it could work quite fast, I would expect Apple to add a 50-100 ms delay for every ontouchstart/-end event. Just to f**k it up.