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Apple Watch and any other HR monitoring watch...

I particularly like this one FTA: "When your competitors’ authorization systems are down at the same time yours are, nobody blames you for it, but when you’re the only company having issues, you suffer reputationally. No matter what your outsourced auth system is (FusionAuth, Cognito, AAD, etc), you can be almost certain that you won’t be alone in the event of an outage."

Ok...

Are you on a xDSL service of fibre?

On xDSL services, some monitored alarms may cause line problems when they "check in". In these cases an in-line DSL filter should do the trick.

Another possibility is that some modem/routers have a "self healing feature" that is just really a restart. See if there's anything like this in the admin/system part of the configuration settings.

Doing a reverse IP lookup you can see there are more than 1000 domains hosted in a single IP address (the domain has four IPv4 addresses). Search engines will sometimes lower ranking based on your "neighbours" - perhaps the OP could start using a service such as Cloudflare (which still have multiple domains per IP but would automatically get a bunch of new IPs, so perhaps "start fresh" on that aspect.

Even on the free plan you can create "Firewall rules" (up to five). Create one that just logs the traffic from known bots. Claim the domain in Google Search Console (no script needed on page) and see the stats for that domain and match those with the Cloudflare traffic. This will help identify if there's something going on - are the Bingbot and Googlebot visiting or not at all? What pages are they looking at?

The robots.txt file is complex - repeated paths that shouldn't really be there. Perhaps create a Cloudflare rule to block access to those paths to everyone but the owner on a static IP address?

After this is done then the OP would know a bit more about what's going on.

It would be good to put that server behind a service like Cloudflare - even the free tier. It would still be a ZX81 webserver but at least requests for files that could be cached would not hit the server... And everyone could visit this little experiment.

Lost seven hours of data? Daily backup with no transaction log backup?

Whoa.

Cloudflare perhaps with a firewall rule that blocks bots over a certain threshold? It may fall under fingerprinting if you need to know that.

You should now have received an email update folks...

Here's an update from Payoneer issued just now https://blog.payoneer.com/exclusive/wirecard-prepaid-card-up...

That's what's happening with me as well. Unfortunately some payment came into my account just overnight and that's now frozen. I have switched to a similar service (TransferWise) for that specific affiliate but this change won't get in effect until next cycle - not helpful since I got this month's payment straight into my Payoneer account. Arghh.

I hope this affects cards only and not the funds as those were debit cards, not prepay.

[EDIT] Sorry, I think I was mistaken - the cards were prepay and only funds above $5000 were held by Payoneer.

Not sure as it is very hard to get an answer from Payoneer at the moment.

Here's a photo of my P30 connected to a BenQ 35" curved a few months back: https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/3fd54a951fe50626b4d53b...

Huawei P20 and P30 series, Mate 20 and 30 series do this. Plug a USB-C cable to an external monitor, Bluetooth mouse and keyboard and you have a desktop like experience, with apps opening in Windows like you'd expect on a desktop. This includes a taskbar, pinned apps, resizable windows and more. No extra hardware needed.

The Saved Address is what you let Chrome store to automatically fill forms. It's not your addresses in your Google Account. These are different things.

Correct. And that's what webpass does.

Correct. In our case we check with the endpoint and if the key is correct and approved we just serve the page WITHOUT the ad scripts.

This not only make pages smaller but also reduces the amount of processing on the client browser. Overall it's as fast, if not faster, than an ad blocker.

Donate buttons are a joke. They don't work for publishers at all.

The current model for alternative revenue sources is... "content". Mainly "sponsored content" where publishers post reviews and whitepapers, some times not disclosing their relationship with the advertisers. I think this is worst than ads.

I posted this reply to another question, but will repost here for your benefit:

I am the OP. I run a website that uses webpass.io. I am not posting a link to the site to avoid self-promotion but it should be easy enough to find.

With that said, here is MY implementation. Other publishers may do it differently.

Our site is a discussion forum. People can browse at will but only logged in users can post and reply to topics.

We run advertising with Google DFP. A few years back we started offering a subscription where users pay us a recurring fee and they have the option to turn ads on/off in their profile.

I myself thought of using a micro-payment service but I wanted something easy.

The way webpass works is by their add-on sending a unique token on every page request. If there's a token my code checks with their server if it's a valid token. If yes we then have two options:

- if you are not logged in then we completely remove the ad scripts BEFORE sending the page to the browser client.

- if you are logged in we treat your session as a subscriber session and will send or not the ad scripts based on your profile preferences. This means you can go to your profile page and turn ads on/off.

Using webpass made the experience better for our users because even those people who don't want to create another web profile and pay another subscription can still get to our site ad free.

I am the OP. I run a website that uses webpass.io. I am not posting a link to the site to avoid self-promotion but it should be easy enough to find.

With that said, here is MY implementation. Other publishers may do it differently.

Our site is a discussion forum. People can browse at will but only logged in users can post and reply to topics.

We run advertising with Google DFP. A few years back we started offering a subscription where users pay us a recurring fee and they have the option to turn ads on/off in their profile.

I myself thought of using a micro-payment service but I wanted something easy.

The way webpass works is by their add-on sending a unique token on every page request. If there's a token my code checks with their server if it's a valid token. If yes we then have two options:

- if you are not logged in then we completely remove the ad scripts BEFORE sending the page to the browser client.

- if you are logged in we treat your session as a subscriber session and will send or not the ad scripts based on your profile preferences. This means you can go to your profile page and turn ads on/off.

Using webpass made the experience better for our users because even those people who don't want to create another web profile and pay another subscription can still get to our site ad free.

Does it make sense now?

Too complicated for people to understand and their funds can get depleted very quickly. Also some websites run Google AdSense as an infill, so Google Contributor doesn't really deal with publishers that have a direct sold inventory first, AdSense second policy.

The webpass.io subscription service is a change from the standard consumer - publisher relationship. Instead of having to create and maintain subscriptions with different websites, consumers can subscribe to a single service and affiliated websites can check with the platform to confirm entitlement - thus eliminating friction.

Depending on how websites configure the service customers don't need to create local accounts to get benefits - unless of course sites require accounts for things such as posting comments in topics and articles, or using other non-subscriber's related services.

I am not involved with the service, except as being a publisher using the platform as an alternative to ad-based revenue/subscription model.