A browser addon that utterly floods advertisers and trackers with dummy data. A single person using it is easy to single out. A thousand start to eat into the profits. 100k should make them go offline (DDoSโed) with an interesting frequency.
A ridiculously user-friendly encrypted email default.
Iโm so used to GPG, I no longer know which parts arenโt user friendly.
The hard part is getting used to it. How do I share my public keys? How do I use GPG (the program)? How do I access them easily? What do I do when I want to encrypt my mails on desktop (maybe Windows+Linux), laptop, and phone? Itโs just relatively much work to gather the knowledge.
+ the fact thereโre not many people using it
An open-source, federated, and privacy-protecting alternative to the dominant advertising services. Something that gives the individual web user full control of which ads they see; from which indies, organizations, companies or any other groups. And where they can also filter ads based on clear categories, values, or tags, rather than everything being dictated by algorithms and โrelevancyโ.
I actually didnโt think about it much, because I block all ads. But consumerism can be fun, I wouldnโt mind ads if I had a say in which I see.
Weird how neolibs are proponents of the free market all the time, but at the same time insist on shoving crap we donโt want down our throats. I like your suggestion.
An open source and private chat app that everybody wants to use
Signal works. The adoption is fairly slow, but Iโve had friends slowly begin to use it.
Do services count? Because in that case, ride-hailing. A replacement for services like Uber and Lyft.
