This is solid advice - thanks. One of the things they mentioned is that this would help prevent botnets. Would OAuth also do that? Also - does the opensource, non-profit status change the dynamics?
No, nothing about being open-source or a non-profit fixes the technical flaws in a system's design choices. It just makes this a poor design with an ethically pleasing organization behind it.
Not sure why either open-source or non-profit would change the dynamics? Non-profits are still incentive-driven, and their goals may not align with yours; and open-source code is entirely independent of how data is collected, shared, etc. People do evil with OSS all the time. :)
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This is solid advice - thanks. One of the things they mentioned is that this would help prevent botnets. Would OAuth also do that? Also - does the opensource, non-profit status change the dynamics?
No, nothing about being open-source or a non-profit fixes the technical flaws in a system's design choices. It just makes this a poor design with an ethically pleasing organization behind it.
Not sure why either open-source or non-profit would change the dynamics? Non-profits are still incentive-driven, and their goals may not align with yours; and open-source code is entirely independent of how data is collected, shared, etc. People do evil with OSS all the time. :)