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How does open web make it better? Then your data is swimming on a server outside your device on an unknown operating system with god knows who looking at it.
by cudgy 5y ago
How does open web make it better? Then your data is swimming on a server outside your device on an unknown operating system with god knows who looking at it.
Someone earlier astutely stated the metaphor “the thin edge of the wedge”; the movement to the “cloud” via the open web over the last decade was the thinnest part of the wedge.
- hypothesis 5y agoWithout one we would be forced to use apps on a locked down OS and unable to switch to any up-and-coming alternatives at all. Even to the extent web is open today, I’m able to run Linux on all my PCs/laptops and not to have an extra one to run proprietary OS in order to participate in modern life.