[ghinda]

CouchApps had a better vision for the web. You would run a local CouchDB and replicate the app next to your data, rather then giving the app access to your data while hosted somewhere else. It has the added benefit of working offline.

Some sort of cross-domain request blocking could then prevent the app from stealing your data.

[mark_l_watson]

Thanks for mentioning CouchApps (based on CouchDB, or the scalable BigCouch). I haven’t thought about CouchDB as a platform for a long time, but it does hit a sweet spot for local data, distributed replication. Seems like a good basis for a Decentralized Web on a small scale where you share with a small number of people.