This year we made good progress. You know, Linux gaming becoming better, Reddit fucking up, Metaverse failing etc. But on the other hand Big Tech has or are planning to make some moves. Such as, Google’s Web Enviroment Integrity API (EDIT: they backed off), UK’s encryption bill, etc.
So what do you think of the future? I’m currently optimistic. I think the best recent event was Reddit fucking up. Obviously one of the biggest information sources going down that path isn’t something to celebrate. But it was bound to happen. I believe decentralized social networks becoming more popular is what Aaron Swartz would have wanted if he saw how Reddit was being managed.
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Privacy is unironcally getting better, it’s only bad because of the vulnerability in our current web design we’re hardening against. Https and hello encrypt go a long way to hide our traffic, definitely not anonymous though. E2ee has never been as prevalent as it is now.
Corporations spying are obviously bad, but if it’s possible, then it’s inevitable that it was going to happen regardless and it’s a good thing we’re hardening our protocols against what was fundamentally a design flaw that would inevitably be exploited eventually.
Decentralization has never been nearly as popular or robust as it is now. I spend 90% of my social media on decentralized apps, which I could never say that before. My phone is as private as it has ever been with GrapheneOS.
Laws are getting more robust for privacy, some of the time anyways. Fascist laws in the name of “think of the children!” are trying to break encryption and privacy and are constantly a battlefield we need to be extremely vigilant over.