Re:Mozilla WebThings
by pault on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:23AM
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Maybe not grandma, but Bob the accountant could install pihole or tor. If only a small fraction of non technical people start using privacy focused software, it would be a big win for the open internet.
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While I agree in principle, unless people are becoming unchained from their ISP-provided router/modems, I just don't see this gaining much traction. I really hope this succeeds (or something like it), I just feel that the current ISP environment is not conducive to such disruption, especially when 98% of users are running vendor-provided modems with the default configuration.