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→Feedback: Decentralisation - this is like forcing a proxy on everybody
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* Nothing in the API or protocol forces this to go through mozilla. We can easily let the user choose any delivery service. However we need to go through a delivery service rather than having each website send messages to the device directly in order to reduce IP address/phone number/usage time leakage. | * Nothing in the API or protocol forces this to go through mozilla. We can easily let the user choose any delivery service. However we need to go through a delivery service rather than having each website send messages to the device directly in order to reduce IP address/phone number/usage time leakage. | ||
-- Sicking | -- Sicking | ||
We don't "need" to go through Mozilla. When I browse the web, I already contact servers directly and they see my IP address. Moreover, the server sees every webpage I visit and when. I can only prevent that by using a proxy all the time, but then the proxy can monitor me, and I'd rather avoid that. We have a similar tradeoff here. I'd argue the sensibility of my Internet usage times is less sensitive than the information which webpages I visit, and the latter already leaks. | |||
This is changing core principles ("decentralization") of the Internet, and I don't see a good justification for that. You are basically forcing a proxy on everybody. If we wanted that, we'd all use HTTP proxies already. | |||
-- Ben Bucksch | |||
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