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 From:  patch  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
39012.96 In reply to 39012.95 

So do I. Except on certain sites, cos I'm nice like that. But you did mention getting an API from Flickr that gives us the photos and adverts. But that's just an example, and hypothetical, so I'm not sure how much further this can go.

 

If it doesn't use existing services, then we're back to people storing their stuff in "our" cloud, which would be other people's PC and servers. At which point most of the world will object because they don't understand/don't care what encryption does, and they don't understand that it's almost the same as using iCloud but the data isn't stored by Apple.

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  patch     
39012.97 In reply to 39012.96 
Doesn't really matter if they object. So long as enough understand and don't object. Game servers are a good example. There are plenty of those for all the people who want to play, most of whom probably don't know or care that that's some real person running the software on their server just to be nice.
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 From:  patch  
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
39012.98 In reply to 39012.97 
Game servers don't hold your personal data. I suppose at this point the discussion changing to be about how you'd market the service: easily enough dumbed down to explain, but there'd still be a huge number of people who get half of the concept and then think "But what if photos of my grandchildren end up on the computer of some pedo?" Assuming they survived me trying to kill them for not knowing how to spell paedo, they'd just not use it rather than look into it any further.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  patch     
39012.99 In reply to 39012.98 
Yeah I was just commenting on people's willingness to donate without getting any payment/recognition.

Marketing is... a whole other discussion :Y
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   
 To:  patch     
39012.100 In reply to 39012.98 
Or they'd select the option saying "use local storage" instead of the one saying "use encrypted distributed storage", and then there's no worry.

The point of this is, there doesn't need to be one way.

Facebook (and G+ and everyone) enforce their fixed way onto people, and people have no choice but to put up with it (or not use the service, and thus not be able to communicate with people across the globe).

Doing it right means providing people with the ability to have things their own way - and that includes whether you store your photos on your home machine, or on an encrypted peer-to-peer network, or on your ISP's space, or on your flickr account, or on a dedicated server, or on a cloud data store, or on a corporate VPN, or wherever the photo sharer chooses.

Computers are supposed to fit around human's needs; so people choose what they want to do, and it's the software's job to do that as seamlessly as possible.

And that doesn't need any one entity to spend lots of money on flashy hardware.
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      
39012.101 In reply to 39012.1 
I think you're great Peter (heart)

bastard by name, bastard by nature

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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   
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39012.102 

So I just got an advert "How To Lose Belly Fat" from an Australian company.

 

So on one hand that's good - it shows FB doesn't know everything about me (or at least doesn't tell advertisers).

 

But on the other hand, it does have me rather offended - that they would insult me by showing such an advert.

 

How dare they imply I'm fucking Australian! :@

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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      
39012.103 In reply to 39012.102 
Fucking w3rd homie.
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 From:  DeannaG (CYBATRON)  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      
39012.104 In reply to 39012.10 

I'm with Lucy. I LOVE ADBLOCK!

 

I hate facebook, my space, and quite a few others. I've tried some of them, and I'm not impressed. You go there to socialize. Not get buried in advertisements.

 

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