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by saurik 806 days ago
Some people finally are -- and, frankly, all of them should be, though that's another argument -- building web applications where the code for the web application itself is being loaded off of a decentralized system via a newer protocol or a gateway that they can control and which verifies the hash of the site being loaded. Also: even for services like WhatsApp Web, there are browser extensions such as Code Verify that provide most -- if not "all" or even "more than" -- the benefits you supposedly are getting by having your automatic updates re-distributed via a third-party package manager.