quirzle

Yeah, I’ve got a bunch of the annoyances filters active and don’t know if I could browse most websites without them at this point.

Is the last one still useful if you enable the cookies filter under annoyances in uBlock?

PIA is about twice that if you pay for 3 years at a time. It’s more, but you continue to keep everything you torrent, which is a bonus over Hulu.

You’re blowing smoke, without looking anything up from the source.

Everything I’ve said was based on part of the link in the OP, which I did read.

Happy reading.

That link doesn’t include anything new and explicitly states as much in the first sentence. Not sure what you’re on about, but you’re not making the point you think you are.

Is it?

Yes, as clearly indicated by this part of the linked notice:

Due to the large-scale violations occurring from that hosting provider, we will be taking action soon to block access and activity from Plex Media Servers hosted by that provider.

but a disproportionate number of servers on one infrastructure could resist alarm bells and lead to a naming of the entire IP range in conjunction

Not sure what you’re even trying to say here. There’s nothing here or elsewhere indicating that too many Plex servers on the same infrastructure is a concern. I haven’t read through the Plex TOS with a fine-toothed comb, but I don’t imagine there’s anything about making sure your server isn’t hosted too close to a bunch of others.

with that hosting provider which no longer wants this kind of behaviour in it’s infrastructure.

Has there been anything from the hosting provider to indicate this, or are you just making stuff up? The notice is pretty clearly Plex indicating they have an issue with something Hetzner is doing that violates their TOS.

Possible deniability Andy adjusting you’re willing to be proactive as an organization matters legally.

Plex isn’t gaining any plausible deniability. They’re providing instructions to migrate the servers to other hosting, which is effectively saying “you can do what you’re doing, just do it over here instead.”

Basically, this is Plex showing they do due diligence when someone is crossing the line into profiting from media, which is highly illegal.

How does it show that? This seems to be an issue with the hosting provider, but it suggests hosting elsewhere and links instructions for migrating the server elsewhere. If the issue was users profiting from media, then hosting their Plex-based streaming service elsewhere wouldn’t solve that at all.

Better late than never?

Yes, the article is about a specific instance of it happening.

I think this might be a case where the generic “scams generally work best if done low effort” doesn’t apply, since to be successful, this sort of scam requires some specifics. The not-kidnapped daughter was away training for a ski race. Blasting “we kidnapped your daughter” to people whose daughter is sitting on the couch next to them or people without daughters doesn’t work at all.

The article mentions people lose an average of $11k in these scams, which means they’re probably working best when targeting people with some savings.

Why keep the 3 staff? They’re not going to be working diligently to do all the human tasks while freshly aware of how little they’re valued at this point. They’re going to look for a better place to work.

The version I heard was “everything in moderation, including moderation.”

But the Butthole Surfers said, “It’s better to regret something you did than something you didn’t do”

I haven’t seen ads in years (thanks ublock origin), but the wiki fandom pages are by far the absolute worst when it comes to the cookie consent pop up

If you’re already using uBlock Origin, you can add a list called EasyList Cookie under Filters > Annoyances and also not see most cookie consent popups for years.