My view is that due to the insecurity of our computers, we (and the public) always be very afraid of going to anything other than the popular sites for things.

My view is that due to the insecurity of our computers, we (and the public) always be very afraid of going to anything other than the popular sites for things. It doesn't matter how hard you push, nobody wants to risk getting hacked, and will stick to the "safe" sites. It doesn't have to be this way, if you're old enough, you remember the days of shareware floppy disks in the 1980s, when it was reasonable and safe to try anything you wanted. (Why.... we had a very strong and reliable de-facto version of capability based security with our write protectable floppy disks and lack of hard drives) Genode, and GNU/Hurd could get us back to that level of safety, but it's going to be a long, long time before that happens.