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This sounds just creepy that they are suggesting no more anonymity on the internet... as a "fix".
What a strange and utterly incorrect way to interpret Tailscale's mission.
Will they be left out of this new internet?
However this is the path that could move them towards being pressured to add a bunch of bloat, followed by acquisition pressure and a big payout that will likely eventually cause the product to stagnate after the founding team leaves and the buyers don't care.
I really hope they’re all already rich enough that they aren’t tempted by that. :-)
Update: altered content to add more speculative version.
With such a huge investment comes the obligation to eventually pay it back. Is this another one of my favourite tools going the way of Dropbox, 1Password and all other companies that were formed around what should be a platform feature, which took on way too large investment sums and were eventually forced to become the everything, losing sight of their core values? I sincerely hope not, but there's so much bad prece…
I wouldn't put them in the Dropbox bucket.
Also, I think the value Tailscale provides is fairly unique and far from obviously a platform feature like file storage and perhaps even password management.
Great product. One of the very few that "just works" and "gets better all the time".
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What a strange and utterly incorrect way to interpret Tailscale's mission.
From the website: What if we all just had a static IP address, and a DNS name? …and the address migrated around the world with you? …and you could connect to any of your devices no matter where they were? Does this not promote the destruction of anonymity on the Internet?
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What a strange and utterly incorrect way to interpret Tailscale's mission.
From the website: What if we all just had a static IP address, and a DNS name? …and the address migrated around the world with you? …and you could connect to any of your devices no matter where they were? Does this not promote the destruction of anonymity on the Internet?
Tailscale doesn't make privacy worse any more than the fact that to a first approximation, no residential Internet provider in the US has rotated an IP in recent memory.
(Disclosure: I'm a (small) investor via Latacora's sibling fund, Lagomorphic.)
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What a strange and utterly incorrect way to interpret Tailscale's mission.
It's not their "mission" but it is their system. If you have a static IP address where "...the address migrated around the world with you..." how do you think that will work for people that _NEED_ anonymity? Will they be left out of this new internet?
edit: Only the client is open source. See clarification below.