How SOLID protocol could end big tech's domination of the web
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Big Tech companies have amassed way too much power over users by hoarding their personal data.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the web, is launching a new web protocol, Solid, which will decentralize user data and shift the power back to users.
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Written by Anthony Gore
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This is actually so cool! There is one flaw though... Suppose you have a POD and in exchange for logging into Netflix you give them permissions to read your pod. What is stopping Netflix from CLONING your current data, so they still have a 'snapshot' of your historic behavior even after you have signed out and removed permissions. This is literally what companies would do.
They could, but they probably won't. For the same reasons they don't copy your password or credit card details. Maybe small companies with less accountability might.
@@DevTrends_io Little companies like Facebook who admit to never deleting your data even if you delete the data. It's naive to think companies would not do that. In fact if I owned a company I would do that cuz I know my competition is so I have to. With the right user agreement it can even be legal. Tracking users is the whole purpose of tracking cookies. This is just a massive tracking cookie that stores your whole lifes journey.
@@DevTrends_io Are you 2 years old? Coz you can't be that naïve.
@@DevTrends_io Lik you cant untell a friend a secret, computers have potentially great memory.
But, this technology is about improving access control and ensuring accessibility into the future.
@@DevTrends_io lol company like Netflix, uses a payment portals e.g.: PayPal, will not get any card password.
It would be nice to know how all this personal data is stored by Solid. Is it encrypted? How? Does solid have access to our “pods”. Also if you are granting access to the information in your “pod” to other companies. How on earth do you guarantee that they won’t be saving all that data in their own database once access is granted? Are you able to have multiple pods with different information on them? What is the protocol, server, cloud, network, and frameworks ensuring that personal data isn’t stolen, accessed or used by Solid and its partners?
Do you guys do all the work to protect customers data? Do you guys have node validadors or random people storing all this data in small amounts or you guys operate just like google, Facebook and others, but you are giving us your word that you will take care of our data?
I guess the most important wasn’t explained in this video. Who is storing and protecting the data other than Solid? And whoever is, how are they doing that??
I love the initiative and I am happy Solid is looking at a real world problem with plenty of use cases. However, I just don’t see the mechanism behind it and how it is different from all other web2 big tech companies. Cause if it isn’t different, it will just be a further step into the same thing
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What you are asking, is how can i share something with a computer and then unshare it. Make that computer forget what I previously shared. Hence the naive answer, “hopefully the potential reputation hit will prevent this.”
This is like a friend gossiping what they already heard in the past.
What i find so beautiful about this, Is potentially maintaining long term availability of my data, and if i own my data i best ensure that only who want to have it, can have it, and will have it even a long time from now.
No no its about fairness, a true friend is trusted. Big techs are not even friends but they know more than your friends do
The big internet players have nothing to gain and too much to lose by adopting Solid protocols, so it's safe to assume it's reliant on a killer app to be attractive to personal users. I hope it does well, though.
if this protocol anonymizes the user to the entity accessing the data, that would be something... otherwise, there is still only "trust" that big corps won't store your data anyway, and sell/use it exactly like they do now. i don't get how accessing this protocol changes any of that.
I never heard from your company but I have a charge for $145.00 from my bank account. I would like my money back. I am a 67 year old woman and I am not interested in your products
Another issue I have with this is that, if I own and have access to my own purchasing history for example, what's stopping me from adding "fraudulent purchases" but will be accepted by the pod given that I know how to modify the data that lives on my pod?
That's just one example, I can potentially tamper and introduce any information in my pod.
Thanks for making this video 3.0
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This gets an award of the dumbest idea of 2022.
I'd like to hear your thinking.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee would also like to hear your thinking.