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2title: February 1st, 2024
3date: 2024-02-01, 23:21:51 -08:00
4section: journal
5tags:
6 - privacy
7 - regulation
8link: https://alecmuffett.com/article/109078
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10[We’re in the middle of a perfect storm for rollback of the ‘open web’ and burgeoning online surveillance”](https://alecmuffett.com/article/109078) — that’s just the title of Alec Muffet’s post. He details a long list of issues, with everything from politics to lack of digital literacy by both activists and regulators.
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12> We are in for a rough few years. There will be losses. The “app” ecosystem will likely take a big — possibly majority — chunk out of the “open web” as users demand features which are more easily built without the abstraction of traditional web/web-like services.
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14Finishing with:
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16> The users will suffer in the middle of this Godzilla battle, but nobody cares about _them_.
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18> And _actual_ privacy and anonymity will be on the back foot for a decade or more.
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20_Oof_. I’m feeling this but don’t want to believe it.