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It's a great idea. Bandwith monitoring and historical usage is important. AppImage would be good too. I wonder if it could be used to to stop bot abuse by being server-centric, like an immune system.

Another strange/unrelated idea is prompt and search term obfuscation: mixing up sources to make profiling difficult. Is it possible to introduce a middle layer to do that?

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great ideas! I put up https://dialtoneapp.com/explore with a live window into all the data it's collected from a whopping 2 machines so far...

Just out of interest, for dialtoneapp.com - how are you viewing browsing stats? Are you able to identify actual humans? Would make for an interesting widget: "3 humans viewing now."

oh cool idea. I have mixpanel javascript in there now.

I think as people move to Linux on handheld (presumably) they will get more interested about who/what/how their machine is being utilized. They'll want to keep it as clean as possible to improve battery life, maximize speed and decrease bandwidth costs.

I think the "one machine per person for everything" is the future with multiple adapters being available depending on the situation. That will coincide with more crypto usage too.

Maybe you could take micropayments at some point as well.

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