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> using my bandwidth without my permission What are you talking about? > What does it have to do with p2p? It’s an example of when you design sandboxes/firew
by klabb3 1y ago
> using my bandwidth without my permission
What are you talking about?
> What does it have to do with p2p?
It’s an example of when you design sandboxes/firewalls it’s very easy to assume all apps are one big homogenous blob doing rest calls and everything else is malicious or suspicious. You often need strange permissions to do interesting things. Apple gives themselves these perms all the time.
- nottorp 1y agoWait, why should applications be allowed to do rest calls by default? > What are you talking about? That’s the main use case for p2p in an application isn’t it? Reducing the vendors bandwidth bill…
- klabb3 1y ago> That’s the main use case for p2p in an application isn’t it? Reducing the vendors bandwidth bill… The equivalent would be to say that running local workloads or compute is to reduce the vendors bill. It’s a very centralized view of the internet. There are many reasons to do p2p. Such as improving bandwidth and latency, circumventing censorship, improve resilience and more. WebRTC is a good example of p2p used by small and large companies alike. None of this is any more ”without permission” than a standard app phoning home and tracking your fingerprint and IP.
- nottorp 1y agoOh, funny you should pick WebRTC. Back when I was still using Chrome, it prevented my desktop from sleeping because 'WebRTC has active peer connections'. With no indication on which page that is happening. Great respect for the user's resources.
- klabb3 1y agoHaha yeah I personally hate WebRTC. It’s a mess and I’ve literally rewritten the parts of it I need in order to avoid it. (Check my profile) I just brought it up as a technology that at the very least is both legitimate and common.