Cloud hosting platform Vercel is under fire after its CEO, Guillermo Rauch, shared a photo of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
The image, which Rauch framed around discussions of AI education and “keeping our free societies ahead”, was immediately read as a political statement given Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Within hours, developers and users across social media declared they were cancelling their Vercel subscriptions, deleting accounts, and migrating projects to competitors like Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, and Render.
What an incredibly dumb thing to do. They deserve all of the backlash they’re getting no matter how and why the selfie happened.
Name and shame: Guillermo Rauch is a genocide supporter.
heart-warming. uplifting. sometimes i feel that i live in a world where “cash is king” and ego matters more than almost anything else.
goddammit now i have to find another host
Filen, NextCloud, pCloud, Internext, MEGA, Tresorit, IceDrive , all EU provider, currently using US providers is supporting Israel.
+1 for pCloud. I’ve been using them for years. Really great service.
-1 for pcloud. They support unencrypted storage.
are you required to use it unencrypted?
No. But you are not required to use it encrypted. That’s the problem.
So?
Most of those provide unencrypted cloud storage. There’s only a few you’d want to use
Wrong, all provide encrypted no knowledge storage, Internext even with Quantum encryption. Privacy protection is mandatory in the EU to be able to operate.
What I said was that they provide unencrypted storage. It’s possible, for example, to store something unencrypted on PCloud. It’s not possible to do that on Mega.
I don’t know, well AFAIK Filen in its free version (10GB) isn’t encrypted, but why do you want an unencrypted storage?
I’m saying we should avoid providers that offer unencrypted storage, like pcloud, filen, etc.
What do they do?
Can’t imagine how someone thinks this is even a good business move. “Israel” gov doesn’t need hobbyist grade quick deploy pipeline. A ton of the people who do will boycott.
This topic made a cameo into a Fireship video lol
