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I was bummed out when Siteground moved all their cloud accounts over G, without telling their customers beforehand

I have completely fazed out reddit from my daily browsing. Unless it is an obscere sub on a niche topic, the posts on there are gamed and manipulated to the front page.

That site has essentially turned into mainstream media with links curated by big companies and special interest groups, with the illusion of community curated content.

It's going to be a shit show this coming election with groups spending tens of millions of dollars on gaming that site

NameCheap are positioning themselves as heros here

They have a history of jumping on various issues for marketing purposes. They got a lot of there core users by going against the founder of GD and spamming reddit with anti GD comments.

If you want a good registrar with free whois privacy (that is easier to manage than NameCheaps) and better prices, go with NameSilo

What is the 2020 version of "fax on the beach"?

Have you ever performed surgery on the beach?

Remote surgery. A doctor is vacationing in The Bahamas and gets an emergency message that a patient needs to go under surgery or will die. The doctor pulls out a briefcase and opens it up, where there is a screen and interactive controls where he can remotely perform a life saving surgery

Doesn't FastMail serve Google Ads?

From Wiki:

"In newer versions, the user was allowed a choice of generic graphical banners or text-based targeted advertisements provided by Google based upon the page being viewed. "

Buy domain: NameSilo.com

Get cheap shared hosting plan: SiteGround

In the admin panel of the hosting plan, you can point and click to install a free Wordpress site (the hosting company will do it for free if you contact them). Once it's installed you can point and click to choose a theme.

It takes a little time getting used to everything, but anyone with no coding or technical skills can do it

Probably a life of guilt for opening doors and handing over all their data to big brother.

Sooner or later this will all be public knowledge. Will this tarnish their legacy?

Maybe trust wasn't the best word. Most marketplaces where you can sell a website has an option to link your GA account directly to the sales page, showing the site stats directly on the page. No other stat program is offered this option.

Since people are not familiar with other programs and they can't be confirmed, it may make them skeptical