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What are criteria to be a good alternative? I personally work for inbox.eu for the last 10 years

We are a small team and have experience with providing email services for almost 30 years.

Our management also is lately very pro AI and we are reevaluating how we will move forward with developing features

99% of software developers earn less than 200 USD a hour

What happened to wikipedia in 2024?

I live with firefox mobile engine for webview without any issue

I have similar story. Recently facebook forced me to enable 2-factor auth but adding SMS did not work for me for a whole week and I just deleted the app. Later I opened facebook from mobile browser and added SMS as 2nd factor and now I have opened Facebook from mobile browser only once in more than a week and I don't miss it much. It was the only "social" network I used besides reddit and hacker news

That's just wrong. Telegram is trusted by both Ukraine and Russia. That tells a lot. Also I am living near Russian border and remember well how Durov left Russia and I am quite sure he is not puppet of Putin...

I always ask people to give example of real world SPAs where JS is "used well" and nobody could give me an example

As an example, 80% of third-party content I receive on Facebook is soft Russian propoganda:

Some examples:

* general auto blog which writes about how 80% of details of some cars are now Russian made

* some general English language construction blog tells about how cool is Russian made Crimean bridge

* some English language aviation page showing how advanced some Soviet planes are

* some Italian page showing how dirty is metro in Italy but how clean it is in Saint Petersburg

* some randome culture page shows cool Russian brutalist architecture

There is so much content like this trying to mascerade as non-political but with clear agenda.

There are no methods to report such pages to Facebook moderation

We used .dev before google registered it so we migrated to another paid domain so we don't need to pay huge amount per year to google

At my work we have similar issues with all big companies we have some kind of integration. Apple, Google, Facebook... Even Huawei app store decided to copy our apps without asking us first and now we have issues managing them. Too much time is spent to appease those companies and for me it starts to feel like some kind of conspiracy theory...

That's why we offloaded phone validation to Telegram - it is too costly to send SMS in other countries than our home market and spammers are finding ways to get phone numbers for free from different VoIP providers. We need to implement complicated SMS sending limit logic to avoid abuse

Verifying phone number is one of the last things which is still effective when fighting against bot registrations. Alternative is to ask money for registration.

Here is idea for hacker news crowd: make service which is a proxy for phone number validation: user needs to validate his phone number once in that app and any other 3rd-party service can ask this app for security code which confirms phone number ownership. We use something similar by offloading phone number confirmation via Telegram bot. Also this proxy service could optionally offload management of "bad" phone numbers used by spammers and add other protections