@drahardja how do novice users become advanced users? that’s the issue. the web at its start was explicitly designed to invite even casual users to learn and explore. newer practices hide every next step. you either choose to “become a web developer” or you stay at the surface.

that’s bad, ethically. the original ethos, rendering transparent the tools needed to incrementally grow into knowledge and creative capacity was good. 1/

@drahardja if you want, like firefox, to highlight the hostname for novice users, great. but if novices can only learn more by going into conplicated browser settings, you’ve created a cliff. 2/

@drahardja you can’t “empower” users. as soon as you say that, you’ve lied to yourself. users can only empower themselves. the commodity they are increasingly depleted of is agency. you can tell them more or less clearly security related information. that’s fine, and more clearly is better. but if you want an ethical web, made of participants and citizens rather than users and consumers, then you want an infrastructure that instructs and unfurls as people spend time. /fin