While some people care about privacy, huge majority doesn’t (even if they say they do), as you can see be various services that have billions of users.
The only way to make privacy happen is if it’s dead simple, works out of box, and not only doesn’t regresses your experience, but meaningfully enhances it. I’ve failed to see projects that would do that so far, and same here - it adds extra complexity for end user, with no tangible benefits to the experience.
Im working on something that also have the goal to give the power back to the user in terms of control, but i've also understand it the same way you do.
That in the end the platform have to provide a better experience to the end user and also give more power/flexibility to the developer, otherwise no one will use it.
That's the reason i think it requires a lot more work to make this feasible. Only "iterational innovation" wont do it.
I hope that what i'm almost about to launch here, might reach those goals.
AND it goes against economic incentives for the typical dev (i.e. make migration harder to engender lock-in)! But, for devs who have portability and openness as priorities (volunteers and altruists, in other words) it seems very helpful to have a precompiled model of how to build apps that respect these priorities.
people don't care about privacy, but at the same time if facebook (or whatever) didn't mine your information when you signed up first and you had to go deep into the settings to turn on tracking, nobody would care about that either. they just care about being able to do xyz for free.
do you know about the safe network? that seems relatively easy. the way its being designed is that you will have to log-in to access the network (which does add complexity compared to now) but the idea will be that you can sign up for websites and services using your log in ID. so you dont have to share your name or email address and there will be no need for a service to store your password
Hostage? You can export all of your Google Photos collection (I did that myself a month ago, to migrate to my NAS). It’s little annoying, and had some bugs with metadata, but possible.
It removed the feature that syncs my photos with storage I control, and the only option left is an export tool that tends to forget some photos, or exclude some metadata.
The removal of that feature certainly wasn't accidental.
The only way to make privacy happen is if it’s dead simple, works out of box, and not only doesn’t regresses your experience, but meaningfully enhances it. I’ve failed to see projects that would do that so far, and same here - it adds extra complexity for end user, with no tangible benefits to the experience.