Mozilla has a petition asking Facebook to stop tracking people's browsing off the site unless they opt in to it. Frankly I think the solution is to remove the ability to track people across sites from the web entirely, but I signed the petition anyway. Facebook has taken a huge hit to their reputation, so now is a good time to be putting pressure on them to change their ways.
@seanl @satchmoz I've considered why I feel okay using the web, but others have trouble. And I think it is because I am so traumatized, so banged up from my childhood, I approached the web like everything else: don't trust anyone, until they gain your trust, and then expect them to mess up and measure risk.
I was this way in the 90s and my friends told me I read too much 2600. While that was probably true, it also means I've been practicing since then.
@satchmoz @seanl I don't think we can fork the web. I just think we can create better browsers.
If you want to despair, look at how fast everyone jumped on Accelerated Mobile Pages. We don't want to fork the web, we want to keep folks that live in Google or Facebook to not damage the rest of us. Users are complicit in enabling those companies to take more resources than it produces.
@maiki @seanl Do we seriously think Mozilla would have caved to DRM in the web standard if there were more diversity of voices from a large community of browser vendors?
Do we think webkit or blink bugs would be so dangerous on mobile if the mobile browsing market were more diverse and they had less shares of the pie?
@maiki @seanl Monocultures aren't healthy biodiversity is where it is at, both in the biological world and in the technological world.
In both cases the vast majority of the hosts can be dangerously impacted by just a few bugs/diseases because their shared ancestry makes them all vulnerable to the same sorts of things.