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Re:It’s time to kill the web app by leeoniya on Saturday September 23, 2017 @04:37PM (#15321570)
i dont expect site authors to give 2 shits about security when the alternative is ad revenue. that's assuming they even understand the security/privacy implications of spending 5 seconds to add that one-liner social sharing widget.

75% of web devs wont bother to consider it and the other 24% wont care.

it's the job of browser vendors to provide saftey for the masses. of course the giant conflic of interest here is that most browser vendors get a cut of the ad revenue.

there's a massive need for a payment platform that allows for browsing ad-free but still paying directly for content as-you-go. i think Brave is trying to do this.

cryptocurrency may provide the privacy protections for this type of arrangement.

Re:It’s time to kill the web app by jodrellblank on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:39PM (#15322786)
"We show how third-party web trackers can deanonymize users of cryptocurrencies. We present two distinct but complementary attacks."

- "When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies", https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04748