Everyone doesn't. Just a handful of loud idiots who mostly don't work with init systems. It is objectively better. There are some things you could criticise, but any blanket statement like that is just category a.
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I was just thinking that iptables lasted a good 20 years. Over twice that of ipchains. Was it good enough or did it just have too much inertia?
Nf is probably a welcome improvement in any case.
Newer toolkits all seem to be going immediate mode. Which I kind of hate as an idea personally.
But it was the blackjack and hookers that got us into this in the first place.
I can't fathom the thinking of people who believe that adding more smell will make a bad smell better.
No. But you can run some of the init scripts with 'status' and they might print something. And telinit can do a few basic things.
It may actually be a security hazard since there is a small chance of e.g. OOM killing your lock screen or other such process.
Even a little entertaining.
Highly unlikely, but hopefully one day.
Ad blocker is kind of a sad name for a content/spam filter, a vital security tool, but that's what we got. Especially since browsers naively didn't include filtering and block lists by default and they only became common as add-ons.
Being evil pays really well. Sometimes.
A router is often just a switch with extra steps.