12ft is down, @vercel banned me
No warning on a Friday night, while I was on vacation.
Worst yet, they took down all my projects and confiscated all my domains.
No response from support.
I'm making it my mission to clean the web.
It started with 12ft.io when 8 of the top 10 links on Google were paywalled when I was doing COVID research at the beginning of the pandemic. Unbelievable.
But i'm not done
To set the record straight. I missed that email. Your man was on vacation
I’m sympathetic to vercel if they don’t want to host 12ft.
Taking all my other domains and projects and not just disabling 12ft is the weird part.
You’d think a web hosting company would have site
Hey Thomas. Your paywall-bypassing site broke our ToS and created hundreds of hours of support time spent on all the outreach from the impacted businesses.
Our support team reached out to you on Oct 14th to let you know this was unsustainable and to try to work with you.
I’ve received 4 emails from vercel support in 2023, I don’t think that constitutes hundreds of hours of work
But tbf I get it if you want to be an opinionated hosting provider and not host 12ft. No worries here, just restore my other projects and give me my domains back and we