Comment by wissler

The writing has been on the wall about the true nature of "the cloud" for at least 15 years. I tried to tell people, they preferred to put their faith and trust in the major magazines, which were all propagandizing about it constantly. Most people (including the developers who write this software) allow themselves to be herded, and if you try to tell them what's really going on they write you off as a crackpot.

What most people don't realize is that all the value offered by "the cloud" can be created with much higher quality on a different architecture, one that gives all the benefits of the cloud, but without sacrificing privacy.