Thread · 5 tweets · 23 Nov 2022

Good questions, thanks. There is indeed a gradation of risks, but I think that it has threshold effects beyond which gradation doesn't matter. One number that would be interesting to publish is: how many people change the default search engine. Also: how many encrypt Sync.

I wouldn't see Safe Browsing as editorial control so much as a security mechanism. It doesn't decide what's relevant, it doesn't rank the world. Sure, it occasionally censors things that it shouldn't, but I don't think that that's a highly damaging concern at this point.

I do believe however that it should be shared infrastructure, under collective ownership, and that there should be public transparent governance over its decisions and processes — because it has potential for harm. (Last I checked that wasn't the case, happy to be corrected.)

I absolutely think that this is *not* a zero-sum problem! I don't want to work against browser vendors' interests at all. I want to establish a new way for browser vendors to make money so that they aren't beholden to search (sorry, to bookmarking).

Exactly how to set that up is longer than a tweet but I have drafts. But that's what I mean about changing the business model of browsers. It's not against browsers! On the contrary, I seek to make browsers independent. Along the way, I think we can also make search suck less.