Comment by ddalex
20 days ago
This is not going to be successful once they demand strong authentication of clients on the server side - the banking apps already do this, you can't have your phone rooted or compromised.
Wait until the authorities will require strong client side authentication for social media sites, news sites, and everywhere user generated content is accepted, tied to official ID issued by the government
To be honest I don't see an easy path to escaping the walled garden in our interactions with big companies and governments (banking, traveling, mainstream social networks, etc.).
But at least we can build alternatives for interpersonal communication and other uses independent from big companies, like the late 90s-early 2000s Internet, and access that with free devices.
> But at least we can build alternatives for interpersonal communication and other uses independent from big companies
We mostly can't. The most we can do is grow new big companies.
The internet was carefully reorganized so that it's impossible to do anything without money moving around.
Chat control will make this illegal.
If you want the whole commerce in the EU collapse and the CEO's wanting to really hurt and then kill Ursula von del Leyen and the associated lobbies, yeah sure. Let them suicide.
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Maybe that would be a good thing. Don't get hooked on social media or news that survive on outrage and echochamers, just... enjoy life.