Isn't this a matter of regulation? I'm not sure about US, but in EU you have old houses/buildings that are protected. Sure, you can buy them, but you can't modify or destroy them (being cultural heritage).

Most old books aren't worth protecting, and the publishing industry destroys oodles of them as waste that no one wants.

> Do propery owners and travelers really care that much about the app?

There is a threshold how bad it can be. With airbnb they happen to exceed that threshold.

Their website is so bloated that I cannot use it on Firefox mobile. It simply did not load within 60 seconds.

Sorry, don't blame me for spending my money somewhere else.

> Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access patronview.com Why have I been blocked?

> This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

Thank you, from Vietnam.

I see popular blog posts, click it and see its blocked from India.

Other sites are blocking VPN's as well. It's a contineous hassle of turning VPN on and off.

It feels like you are a third class citizen.

I would perform a chargeback if I paid for a window seat.

Offices, maybe. Photography, not at all. Some photographers prefer inkjet over minilab.

I don't care about fancy numbers, I care about high quality peering.

I'd rather have a stable 50Mbit than 1Gbit and 0.5Mbit international peering with packet loss.

Init7 (the ISP in question) is pretty fantastic for peering. They're good to start with but there have been times I've just written them an email and said "hey, I know you and ASABCD have a presence at BLAH-IX, could you peer directly" and it ends up working.

I can download from Usenet at consistently around 10Gbps and I've determined the limiting factor is the combination of client/server behavior and TCP windows. With some customization I've saturated the 25Gbps pipe.

Online games (e.g. League of Legends, Path of Exile) typically have a ping of around 8ms.

Don't sign up with a Tier 1 or aspiring one

How do I compare the peering capabilities of different ISP's? Assuming tier 1 ISP's are not available in my geographic location.

Radar by qrator and BGP.tools.

BGP.tools may be inaccurate for upstreams.

Liberty Global is fine.

Android private DNS does not support alternate paths, alternative ports or basic http authentication.

It's easy to dress up warm. I think it's mostly about costs, not climate.

Could you elaborate on the DPI? Are VPN's banned or only specific VPN traffic.

They aren't blocking VPNs; they are blocking access to "illegal sites" designated by the government. There have been several discussions about blocking VPNs as well, but fortunately?, nothing has been put into practice yet. However, laws are being implemented requiring major CDN providers like Cloudflare to block these sites. I still don't understand why Korea's internet freedom score is over 50 points lol.