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by blacklight 1054 days ago
"Forget editing /etc/hosts!"

Right.

Why would you edit a local file (or create a record on your own local DNS), generate your own self-signed certificate, and immediately get a website that can be tested on your machine, on your local network or on your VPN, when you can pay someone $19 per device (MacOS only) for something less powerful?

I understand that everybody needs to make money for a living, but this seems like the digital equivalent of bottling tap water and asking people to pay for it.

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> digital equivalent of bottling tap water

That's intended as a criticism, but bottled water is a $300B market in the US alone. Most of which is tap water.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-09-28/bottled-wa...