No user accounts, by design
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No user accounts, by design
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Re: No user accounts, by design
#2What we used to call "Need to know" is making a comeback. You don't
need to know. I don't need to know. And in most cases the less we do
know the better. Glad that GDPR is spreading this fundamental security
principle again. Most websites could and should dispense with
sign-in. Even those that have something to sell can compartmentalise
that function these days. That's why I like Gemini, because of its
regression to more or a less stateless web that is about words, roles,
knowledge, links, things and places, but not so much about people and
"identity". That's where we've gone wrong with WWW.
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#4I have been thinking how we can incentivize people building netizen friendly website/app. Creating users, cookies, javascripts heavy, paywall, analytics, etc all share a common incentive of ease of monetization. Privacy, usability, performance, all important stuff, but apparently not important enough, as a result plummeted.
Would love to learn the options!
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#5> Mozilla has taken this idea a step further with Firefox Klar (also known as Firefox Focus similar to Firefox Klar but with less private default settings).
Nope, Klar == Focus in German-speaking markets, the rename was caused by an existing trademark: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/difference-between-fire...
Speaking of which, Focus fits my flow of incidental, one-off browsing quite well — it’s my default browser. If I need a more serious or stateful interaction, I might have the service’s/whatever’s app installed, or use Chrome or full Firefox.
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#6'anonymity is a great way to ensure privacy' is a strong argument IMO
if (if) you assume that it's impossible for consumers to account for how sites use and share userdata, requiring businesses to allow anonymous transactions is the only policy solution to privacy
tricky to balance a 'right to anonymous transaction' against other policy goals like financial KYC, fraud protection, but IMO our current KYC approach has been taken too far at the cost of consumer welfare, and there's an unexplored middle ground
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#7App developer's perspective. I have a few apps on all major places, including F-Droid. The 'no user accounts' thing makes developing and distributing on F-Droid a freeing experience, as compared to the G/A 'jails'. There is no pressure to meet arbitrary undocumented restrictions, you are not subject to the whims of dehumanizing AI routines, there are no ratings and reviews (the feedback is direct). The build and deployment process is not really my problem, as part of their Reproducible Builds, even that aspect is taken care of. https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
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#8How do you solve problems arising from bad actors without an object representing the user?
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#9How do you solve problems arising from bad actors without an object representing the user?
We're just talking about software delivery here. Its the same as Debian not requiring you register before using `apt` to install packages (or every other linux distro).
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#10I've always wished that mobile app "stores" worked more like Linux package managers.