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I will begrudgingly admit he has a point here. In a few years I imagine almost all sites will refuse to serve anything without WEI, and the "open" web will be t
by CalRobert 2y ago
I will begrudgingly admit he has a point here. In a few years I imagine almost all sites will refuse to serve anything without WEI, and the "open" web will be the preserve of a few hobbyists. Annoyingly you'll still need to use a compromised browser (or worse, app) to do anything with your bank, etc.
- DaoVeles 2y agoIt will be something like WEI or sites will just be a giant blob served via WebASM.
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- xk_id 2y ago> the "open" web will be the preserve of a few hobbyists. And maybe that will be the Web healing. If all the value extraction moves elsewhere, we might finally have a sane web of hypertext documents again.
- setopt 2y agoUnless that is labeled the new darkweb and blocked by the firewalls of ISPs and govs. I hope enough mainstream things remain on the open web for it to be unrealistic to fully block.
- CalRobert 2y agoMaybe, but I suspect it will be more like trying to access Usenet now. I dunno. Considering the balkanization of the web maybe I should get in to ham radio or something.
- JeremyNT 2y agoYes, the kneejerk reaction against FF here isn't really thinking things through. Mozilla has to walk this tight rope since ad companies own the web already. Realistically, the best outcome at this point is that enough users are willing to send enough data to advertisers so they allow the open web to continue. The alternative is that sites will eventually only work in Chrome or Safari on limited, locked down platforms (read: no Linux support at all).