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This sounds very reasonable. Some of the replies in this thread are misinterpreting what I said. I didn't say the government should run the APIs etc, just that we already have identity in the real world and it generally works, so we can use that (but maybe not necessarily only that, there could be other options too). I should be able to use my Gov ID to get a Layer 0 verification from some provider, which then integrates with higher level providers, etc.

And again, it would be opt in, just like verifying with Facebook / Twitter etc is opt in. And for people who are concerned about government surveillance, they can already do that if you verify your social media account via your credit card, that's kind of the point there, that the credit card ties a social media account to a real world person.

We already do identity verification in the real world, it's called government issued IDs.

There should be opt-in OS-level identity verification based on zero knowledge proofs and tied to your government-issued digital ID. This also solves issues like preventing minors from accessing adult sites, etc.

I should not have to verify with 1000 third parties and hand over my personal data and then hope it's handled properly and doesn't get leaked. We have zero knowledge proofs and we can get OS makers to make this seamless for us.

Yes. There's a separate queue for sites that need js rendering and it eats much more into your crawl budget. Best way to avoid it imo is to use something like Rendertron, which is made and recommended by Google.

Good point. There is a cottage industry of scams running fake Windows virus alerts.

There are several such cases discussed in the Cloudflare forums. It usually turns out that the webmaster was serving very large amounts of media, which no one should expect to be free.

Their "password manager" on Mac is called Keychain Access. The UX is very bad, the interface is old and clunky and it doesn't sync with iOS (if for example you create a secure note there's no way to access it on iOS) - not to mention that most people don't even know it exists, it's kind of a hidden feature. Meanwhile, on iOS the password manager is hidden in the settings and again it has pretty bad UI/UX. I understand that they want to hide the complexity away from the end user and make these kinds of features "just work", but in practice they feel pretty half-baked.

This is why we need good OS-level password managers. Phones and now computers have dedicated security chips which are infinitely more secure than any cloud solution. Such an easy market to grab that it boggles me why Apple and Google aren't aggressively going for it.

Also, people can be both smart and stupid at different times and sometimes even at the same time. It's not a binary thing.

Interesting, but this does not seem to match empirical evidence by the likes of Ahrefs, which suggests that links are by far the most important ranking factor.

The value for money that Hetzner offer is just mind boggling.

Most of the examples of innocents being convicted are from before the invention of DNA forensics. The problem is the criminal justice system which too easily gives the death penalty. We could easily reduce the probability of conviction innocents from 4% to one in a trillion by enforcing a set of requirements:

- Must have DNA evidence - Must have audio and video evidence - Must have fingerprints - Must have at least 2 witnesses

There are plenty of cases that satisfy these conditions (terrorist attacks being one of them).