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The UNIX way is undeniably more flexible since it isn't a virtual filesystem, it is just a filesystem. The problem is that everyone invented their own configuration format to store configuration data in /etc and there's no format agnostic API to access that information (you can open it, but can you understand it?).
Why the Windows Registry Sucks Technically (2010) | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
When YouTube won that race, they won it with a given set of parameters, including the kind and amount of ads they show. Society at large has, at that point in the past, basically decided that YouTube's offering is the best, and given this market domineering position.YouTube is increasingly moving away from the parameters of this implicit agreement, in minor ways at first, more now. Had they "competed" in the video platform race with current policies, maybe everyone'd be using Vimeo now.
YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
Thus whether the certification architecture that emerges protects privacy depends upon the choices of those who code. Their choices depend upon the incentives they face. If protecting privacy is not an incentive--if the market has not sufficiently demanded it and if law has not, either--then this code will not provide it.
Code Is Law
harvardmagazine.com
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