Read the thing I linked

I wonder, why shouldn't it be done in browser ?

I am not envisioning an IM system.

I'm envisioning a correctly implemented encryption layer for how DMs currently work (with the caveat that I believe cryptography should never EVER be done in the browser (unless an extension or whatever)).

I uh, really hope it STAYS private posts that only both users can see, just with encryption on top.

Way too many people think it should be some kind of weird bolted-on IM system and like... ugh NO!! the current way it works is better than that!

-- Frost

There's still a lot of work to do before E2EE is implemented into ActivityPub, but I think that'd be a better way of having private conversations compared to the one we're having on Mastodon where it's just an exchange of private post that only both users can see.

If this is implemented, I wouldn't be surprise to see a messaging app that use this E2EE for chatting. Who knows, maybe we'll be able to have an app that implement supprt for E2EE, Lemmy and Mastodon at the same time.

That is a great write up! Well written and explained! But ... was the clickbait title and picture necessary? x3

As a note, the EU requirements for cookie banners actually have a few interesting requirements.

So they engineered the consent mechanism to be as high-friction as possible to say “no”, while the “yes, violate my privacy” choice is always a single click.

A consent dialog needs to offer a "decline" option that's at least as easy to access as the "agree" option. If they try to coerce you to give consent simply to avoid tedium, then that consent mechanism is in violation of GDPR.

Also a fun tidbit;
Ended up sharing a table at a speakers dinner in 2019 with a guy who worked for the same advertisement company that caused the Target scandal (among others). He had some interesting things to share about how such things happen, and also how the advertisement industry works internally.
It's got a remarkable amount of parallels to high-frequency trading.

Great read!