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Public cache is an awful idea. It initially sounds like a great public good, but many of us can see where it will go: - google will still have some "extra" cra
by kova12 6y ago
Public cache is an awful idea. It initially sounds like a great public good, but many of us can see where it will go:
- google will still have some "extra" crawling to keep his monopoly
- everyone else would be fighting for an access to said cache, which will not be able to carry everyone who wishes. So, there will be rationing and favors
- that will quickly become a bureaucracy which would envelop every aspect of internet activity
- "undesirable" sites will be easily ejected from cache and forgotten forever
- you will end up with a single entity paid by public, can't go bankrupt, in charge of whole internet. Google will go bankrupt if they don't satisfy people - these people don't even have to do a good job - there's nobody else on the market (remember, we started with the need to eject google? This will eventually happen).