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I feel like it might be too late to untangle the mess the web has become without strong market regulation. With Google pushing for QUIC, DoH, ever-increasing sc
by tannhaeuser 6y ago
I feel like it might be too late to untangle the mess the web has become without strong market regulation. With Google pushing for QUIC, DoH, ever-increasing scope of browsers and JavaScript, CSS insanity, etc. The time where US antitrust instruments could've been effective might have passed over ten years ago when Google bought DoubleClick and YouTube, and Facebook bought WhatsApp, etc. Today, it seems only a regulated market covering hosting, DNS, mail based on standardized services, without "free" vertical add-ons (privacy-invasion-as-business-model) with mandatory transferability to another provider in a DNS-like model could work. And it would help if gov, for once, fund web standards rather than relying on private parties with W3C-like funding models since, clearly, the domain of creating standards for browsers has been taken over by Google as well in the absence of any other funding. If then, over a period of several years, we could rollback most of the abominations on the web since 2010, and force a choice of browsers on desktop and mobile, and a number of telcos competing for web and mail spaces, plus ad providers, we might be going somewhere. Ain't going to happen, though.
- alacombe 6y ago> it might be too late to untangle the mess the web has become without strong market regulation Are you really ready to ask senile boomers who barely understand the tech industry to regulate the tech industry ? It sounds like a recipe for disasters.