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You change the policies by applying economic pressure and moving your accounts to other providers. Seriously it's not worth your time to change other people's behavior. Better to give them incentives or (as in this case) take them away to sway their actions.


Disagree. Calling them out like this can massively multiply the economic pressure applicable.

It's likely I and many other readers of this article will now never use 1and1 if it's possible to avoid them. A sort of passive boycott if you will.


Indeed - the economic pressure of my ~10 domains alone is not enough. The economic pressure of some portion of HN users is more significant.


I will do - my only concern is that my economic pressure alone won't be enough.

This post seeks to address information failure, if you will.




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