Comment by matheusmoreira
3 years ago
If spammers and fraudsters are the price of freedom, so be it. Have corporations and banks eat the cost. God knows they can afford it.
3 years ago
If spammers and fraudsters are the price of freedom, so be it. Have corporations and banks eat the cost. God knows they can afford it.
Eh, I'm barely able to run a search engine due to all the bot activity. Less than 1% of my traffic is human, the other 2.5 million queries per day is from bots. It's only by the grace of Cloudflare it works.
Your mindset ensures the big corporations will be the only actors able to host anything with any level of interactivity. Doesn't sound very open to me.
Well, your mindset ensures the computing freedom we enjoy today will be destroyed. Google is on the verge of introducing remote attestation in browsers so that servers can cryptographically verify any number of things about your client. It's essentially guaranteed that none of those things being verified will be in our best interests.
I'd rather have a static web where I have the power to choose my own browser, inspect source, block ads or even just use curl or Python to scrape something.
What mindset is that, actually trying to build alternatives to FAANG?
I honestly think remote attestation is a smaller problem. At least then we can still build alternative services. I'd rather have a free web and a locked down browser than a free browser and nothing but an endless digital mall to browse. Remote attestation will only lock you out of that endless mall to begin with. It will find ways of sucking regardless of what Google does.
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Do you want anything but static websites to only be possible to be run by a corporation?
Everyone suffers from this.