Comment by hedora

It seems similar to the move from client side spam filters to the server side.

Spam filtering really didn’t get better with the change (for me), but now it’s orders of magnitude harder to run an email server.

Taking the article at face value, GSB makes it much harder to run a reliable web site. Has centralization of email into surveillance organizations hurt more than the benefit from saving bandwidth to download spams, and automatically deleting them at the client?

How much damage will (further) centralization of web hosting onto social network sites (Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, Stack Exchange, etc, etc.) hurt the internet?

It’s arguably already done more harm than good. I can’t even find a decent recipe that a high end laptop can efficiently display. I used to be able to download cookbooks worth of recipes, and my 386 could load them instantly.