| ▲ | nyrikki 2 hours ago | |
This is exactly why I moved to self hosted code in 2017. While I couldn’t have predicted the future, even classic data mining posed a risk. It is just reality that if you give a third party access to your data, you should expect them to use it. It is just too tempting of a value stream and legislation just isn’t there to avoid the EULA trap. I was targeting a market where fractions of a percentage advantage were important which did drive my what at the time was labeled paranoia | ||
| ▲ | moritzwarhier an hour ago | parent [-] | |
I mean they were very actively pushing it with GitHub. There even was this "Arctic Code Vault" badge that kind of encourages you to put your side projects on GitHub. I did it too, wouldn't do so today, but I also don't regret it. Because the value in it is probably not that immense. It was my first project in both React and TypeScript, just to learn both technologies. And I had a couple of weeks where I was injured in a hospital, so plenty of time on hand. It is a client-side sudoku generator and game, buggy as hell, idiosyncratic code, and loads of people have done this better than me. But I like it :) | ||