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> In the wake of Facebook’s privacy debacle, Myspace Tom has emerged as an unlikely hero. What? Why? They all sold data, they all still do. It's fucking Silico

> In the wake of Facebook’s privacy debacle, Myspace Tom has emerged as an unlikely hero. What? Why? They all sold data, they all still do. It's fucking Silicon Valleys Business Model to sell their users' data! What the fuck is going on, why do people behave like they are on the Internet for the first time. We all know this. We all knew this - for years. You've got to be completely oblivious of any facts to still think any player in the modern web is any good or intents to do act good. I can't wait for IPFS and Ethereum to ripe. Those two things combined will create the truly decentralized web and all those big, data selling, companies can fuck off.

firasd 9y ago
Um... if there's a social network based on Ethereum you can just scrape all their user data and not need an equivalent of the Facebook third-party developer platform at all.
- dna_polymerase 9y ago
  In an open platofrm you will always be able to abuse in some form or another. But what will end is the platform abusing your data. And that is the point here. If I want to sell my data (or hand it to someone, whatever) I will be able to do this. But there won't be any central party selling my data. And that is all we can ask for. To be more specific, I could make my data available only to those who I allowed to see it by including their public key in my list of authorised keys. Therefor no scraping.
  - eropple 9y ago
    Anybody who you trust can then use My Cool Quiz App and let it read anything they can see about you, too. Reality is not required to cooperate with coinwank.
PhasmaFelis 9y ago
> In the wake of Facebook’s privacy debacle, Myspace Tom has emerged as an unlikely hero. It's a joke.
dang 9y ago
Can you please not rant like this on Hacker News? No matter how right you are, it damages the container here. We're trying for thoughtful conversation on this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html By the way, Hacker News doesn't sell users' data. Not that we're a big "player in the modern web" or anything, but still.

firasd 9y ago

Um... if there's a social network based on Ethereum you can just scrape all their user data and not need an equivalent of the Facebook third-party developer platform at all.

dna_polymerase 9y ago
In an open platofrm you will always be able to abuse in some form or another. But what will end is the platform abusing your data. And that is the point here. If I want to sell my data (or hand it to someone, whatever) I will be able to do this. But there won't be any central party selling my data. And that is all we can ask for. To be more specific, I could make my data available only to those who I allowed to see it by including their public key in my list of authorised keys. Therefor no scraping.
- eropple 9y ago
  Anybody who you trust can then use My Cool Quiz App and let it read anything they can see about you, too. Reality is not required to cooperate with coinwank.

PhasmaFelis 9y ago

> In the wake of Facebook’s privacy debacle, Myspace Tom has emerged as an unlikely hero. It's a joke.

dang 9y ago

Can you please not rant like this on Hacker News? No matter how right you are, it damages the container here. We're trying for thoughtful conversation on this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html By the way, Hacker News doesn't sell users' data. Not that we're a big "player in the modern web" or anything, but still.