Here’s how Google makes sure it (almost) never goes down

[Kent Sharkey]

Wired[^]:

When was the last time you needed to Google something and Google wasn’t there?

Human sacrifice and dark utterances in the shadows?

Cthulhu fhtagn!

[Sascha Lefevre]

Can't read the article, they block adblocking viewers. What's the gist of it?

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

[Kent Sharkey]

Yeah, I figured someone would point that out ;) Here's Google's line (that will hopefully persuade you do disable your blocker for the 3 seconds it takes to open the article ;P)

Quote:

Don’t get IT people who specialize in running Internet services to run your Internet services. Have software coders run them instead.

TTFN - Kent

[Sascha Lefevre]

Thanks, Kent! :) It's a custom HOSTS file, so it's a bit more laborious to dis- and reenable. I'll think about it :laugh:

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

[Weylyn Cadwell]

Really? I don't have any problem reading the article, and I have both uBlock AND adBlock running.