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by qubidt 1787 days ago
> Define "lots"

a ton of government and scientific datasets are provided over FTP
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Symbiote 1787 days ago
The majority are also available on HTTP.

It saves a lot of confused users at other government / scientific institutions, where the firewall blocks FTP.

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qubidt 1787 days ago
Even accounting for that (ignoring that the data served over FTP and HTTP aren't always perfectly equivalent), it still leaves a lot of stuff that is only served over ftp.

Google found it a convincing enough argument to warrant re-enabling ftp support last year, in light of the pandemic: https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/15/ftp_chrome_deprecatio...

That doesn't mean I'm against deprecation completely. But you can't pretend it won't affect people

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