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.

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[–] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What an incredibly dumb thing to do. They deserve all of the backlash they're getting no matter how and why the selfie happened.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    For people, usually with empathy, it's dumb, for others this may be a call for business. And there isn't a shortage of people supporting the genocide. US literally had 2 genocide enablers for last president election. Rich people in US never shy away from the most unethical shit to make more money.

    What do you think the military industrial complex has been doing since WWII?

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago

    Cloudflare pages has been very nice since I stopped using Vercel about a year ago. Netlify is also nice!

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    heart-warming. uplifting. sometimes i feel that i live in a world where "cash is king" and ego matters more than almost anything else.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    You do, "Cash is King" is why people canceling these things en masse makes a difference in the world... you make a difference in their bottom line.

    My only regret is that I cant vote with my wallet against things I cant afford to buy in the first place.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago

    Name and shame: Guillermo Rauch is a genocide supporter.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago*

    “keeping our free societies ahead”

    Why is my dog barking?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    How fucking thick do you have to be to post a selfie with Netanyahu if you're selling a platform for software engineers, notoriously a group of people at least somewhat educated, full of leftists (the entire open source movement could be considered communism) and terminally online.

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  • How out of touch do you have to be to post such a photo now?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    goddammit now i have to find another host

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (16 children)

    Filen, NextCloud, pCloud, Internext, MEGA, Tresorit, IceDrive , all EU provider, currently using US providers is supporting Israel.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    +1 for pCloud. I've been using them for years. Really great service.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    -1 for pcloud. They support unencrypted storage.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Most of those provide unencrypted cloud storage. There's only a few you'd want to use

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Wrong, all provide encrypted no knowledge storage, Internext even with Quantum encryption. Privacy protection is mandatory in the EU to be able to operate.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do any of these even do what Vercel does?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Visit the homepages and look which features they have, normally similar in all cloud services. But for sure they don't have friendly meetings with Netanyahu

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    This topic made a cameo into a Fireship video lol

    https://youtu.be/hkSj-QapfZo

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Good, let anyone associated with those Nazis get theirs, and more.

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