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Agreed with your sentiment, but I think a plugin approach (many exist) is better than a browser fork. The fork could surely convert some users (and developers),
by antsar 13y ago
Agreed with your sentiment, but I think a plugin approach (many exist) is better than a browser fork. The fork could surely convert some users (and developers), but that just means duplication of development efforts between the fork and (for example) the Mozilla+Plugins ecosystem. Contributing to existing projects (or building a new plugin, if an open one doesn't already exist) seems like a better way to go.
- seiji 13y agoMass adoption ends up being the problem though. It doesn't hurt the evil privacy invading corporations to cut off 0.0005% of the population consisting of privacy conscious computer nerds. Maybe a partnership of some sort. "You can only use Pinterest if you have Freedom Guard installed." (which sounds like spyware anyway) We just need The Next Big Thing to guide normal people to install software to cut the legs off of current information hoarding enterprises. They only reason what they do isn't illegal is because laws haven't caught up yet, not because it's "right," "allowable," or even "morally conscionable." The internet platforms are being run by amoralists who don't care what happens as long as they end up with more power in world in the end.
- rmrfrmrf 13y agoMost privacy conscious people simply choose not to use sites like Google and Facebook.