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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by johnchristopher on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:54PM (#25665607)
When will the market be ripe for people/average joe to buy or rent a block data service à la s3/minio so they can plug their app (calendar, photo sharing, blog, messages, etc.) to it instead of being forced to pay for services with their privacy ? They'd just pay for cloud storage that can be used by any apps using buckets/volumes as external storage instead of paying for dropbox like dumb storage.

If I had money I would do a foundation thing to kickstart something like that.

Is that a dumb idea ?

edit: maybe the latency between the app and the block service would be too high to be reliable/tolerable.

edit2: there used to be a lot of applications that relied on dropbox to store things but I have a feeling SSG captured the dev mindshare (or maybe Dropbox restricted the API).

edit3: I just corrected `id` to `idea`, my brain does that when I am tired :D

Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by lisper on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:59PM (#25665694)
Not dumb at all, just really hard. I've taken a couple of shots at this and been defeated by it every time.
Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by hntcz on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:01PM (#25665737)
No, not dumb. That's what I wrote my BSc project on.
Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by holografix on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:01PM (#25665722)
How would you stop the app from retaining your date once they have access to it?
Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by johnchristopher on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:42PM (#25666153)
You can revoke access to buckets (to stay in the S3 comparison).
Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by holografix on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:05PM (#25694100)
But what if in reading the data the apps didn’t also make their own copy and store in their servers?