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@hannes2peer it's spy-tech!!! @mikael
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@mmn in what way?
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@mmn and how would us not using it stop others from using it to spy on people?
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@hannes2peer I guess it doesn't really matter as javascript is required anyway. People who use that don't care about privacy anyway.
What I'm opposing is that servers should know about my online-time when I have closed down tabs related to it. The Push API thing is meant, afaik, to run in the background (otherwise you'd use ordinary long-polling) and thus maintains a connection with the server hidden from the user's view. -
@hannes2peer But apart from that, since it's meant to run on a trusted server and the fallback is "just don't use it", I don't have any philosophical arguments against it. I'm just saying that it will be disabled by default on any browser that bothers protecting the end-user from evil servers (or middlemen monitoring the connection).
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@mmn sounds promising, that was one of my questions, if it runs in the background. because if it doesn't it's useless
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@mmn it would be awesome to get push notifications in android from quitim by just visiting the site in the browser
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@hannes2peer Yes, that would be good for the 99% of users. But we, the 1%, will continue fighting for CLI as the primary user interface and the destruction of the World Wide Web.
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@mmn would that be a connection to the user's gnusocial instance but not to a 3rdparty server?
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@mcscx As far as I understand the browser Push API it doesn't involve third party servers. What's scary is it's marketed as "let Facebook know when you're online so they can give you advertisement^W messages!".
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