An asynchronous Internet in GNOME [LWN.net]

An asynchronous Internet in GNOME

Posted Sep 13, 2016 1:30 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: An asynchronous Internet in GNOME by davidstrauss
Parent article: An asynchronous Internet in GNOME

I think this is a funny comment because Microsoft did this on Windows 10 and received criticism, some people felt that it was a violation for the OS provider to make use of someone else's computer that way, as the feature, to be the most useful to the largest number of people, is enabled by default.

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-10-windows-up...

An asynchronous Internet in GNOME

Posted Sep 15, 2016 20:14 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> I think this is a funny comment because Microsoft did this on Windows 10 and received criticism, some people felt that it was a violation for the OS provider to make use of someone else's computer that way, as the feature, to be the most useful to the largest number of people, is enabled by default.

I can't make sense of what you say, BUT! If an option to use MY bandwidth for OTHER people is an opt-OUT, what happens if I pay for said bandwidth by the MB. THAT is the problem, not the fact that the feature is there.

Indeed, my ISP offers me the option to use other peoples' routers while I'm roaming. But that is very much an opt-in - if I configure my router to let others use it, then I can use others' routers in return. (And iirc, it's on a separate network managed by BT, not on my home 192.168.1.x subnet.)

Cheers,
Wol