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The biggest problem in these kind of products is not implementation but trust. The home page says that everything is private etc etc. Whatsapp also made simila
by prakhar897 3y ago
The biggest problem in these kind of products is not implementation but trust.
The home page says that everything is private etc etc. Whatsapp also made similar claims before they were acquired, then suddenly these things didn't matter.
If this gets critical mass, what's stopping them from selling out. Bonus if they "accidently" started tracking users between update v4.2 and v5.2. Also, the TOS magically changed overnight.
The sad part is if they didn't sell out, they'll be buried under lawsuits and eventually banned. Just like KATorrents, yt-dl, Internet Archive, Dread Pirate Roberts etc.
1. https://www.businessinsider.com/suspected-kickass-torrent-artem-vaulin-arrested-2016-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/suspected-kickass-torrent-ar...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht
- voicedYoda 3y agoBut, yt-dl won their lawsuit (thanks to lawyers from GitHub, an extension of Microsoft). The project went strange, but yt-dlp picked up...
- SpaghettiCthulu 3y agoBoth the client and server are open source, and the server is decentralized, so anyone can host a server and as they say, "still chat with all users".