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I can't convey how disgusted I am at the thought of WEI becoming a reality. It will lead to three webs: the remainder of the open web, the new closed web, and
by hkt 3y ago
I can't convey how disgusted I am at the thought of WEI becoming a reality.
It will lead to three webs: the remainder of the open web, the new closed web, and the pirate web.
Personally I'll do my bit to preserve openness, even if that means working socially and technically to support the new world of piracy. It will always be a losing battle without institutions fighting for openness, though.
This is a moment when Sun's old line - "the network is the computer" - starts to look hideous and dystopian. Prophetic, but maybe not how we thought.
- version_five 3y agoIt's not immediately obvious to me that the closed web will have anything good on it. People that want other people to see their stuff won't lock down who can visit, it seems like it's mainly for ad supported crap? Optimistically, the web will break apart into some AOL Disneyland Cable shit experience and an actual good internet whose participants are not just pretending to have engaging content so they can get ad views. I know that sounds too optimistic, what's the flaw in it? Google will use it's monopoly on a few things to push it, I'm happy to move away from gmail and I don't use Google search anyway. What other practical changes will there be?
- yakireev 3y ago> What other practical changes will there be? Your online banking will stop working on your unapproved software, just like your baking app stopped working on your rooted/old Android phone some 3-5 years ago.
- TT-392 3y agoEvery website with google ads becoming unusable. And also, every site using google captcha.
- hkt 3y agoThis has given me an idea for an SEO-spam-proof search engine along the lines of Marginalia: crawl the internet for sites with no Google Ads