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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Slluxx" data-source="post: 10381788" data-attributes="member: 497378">Yeah? I dont really know what to make of this cause to me this sentence doesnt make much sense. Projects don't start as open source. Someone decides it, makes a repository and uploads the code. Obviously projects that currently are open source are already public lmfao. The negative points still apply if you switch platforms and are even worse when you start out on a lesser known one.Wrong. They see your operating system, what browser you use, what plugins your browser has, which cpu you have, which gpu you have, battery percentage, what page you came from before visiting their site, they can measure your download/upload speed, to an extend see what socialmedia you are logged into, check your gyro and measure if you are walking or the phone is flat on a table, timezone, screen size, system fonts, and much more, creating a unique fingerprint of your device. (<a href="https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/" target="_blank">Here, a great example of the things that can be collected</a>)Aside from those things, they will also get all the data you provide on the login process, which might or might not contain your email, username, password and what not and even if they don't sell your data, you simply dont know how safe it is on their service.It takes literally 10 minutes to set up and has no cost (aside from electricity) if you host it on your own machine. Even a raspberry pi can handle it. You don't need a big server and you also have no cost of maintanance. All in all i can tell that you have no clue about this stuff.Nice strawman argument. I never said "every developer out there should host their own code". This is dumb and was never a point. I said you should host your own code if you fear DMCA, which only a fraction of projects out there do. If you host it yourself or decide to host it on an unknown platform in russia or china makes no difference in the people you will reach though. Completly invalid point. However the fear of breach or sold data is real.BTW: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is United States only. However copyright laws are international. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization" target="_blank">WIPO</a> (which DMCA is based on) protects intellectual property worldwide (191/193 (depends on the source) countries, except East Timor, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands & South Sudan). So you can't go around and host illegal code somewhere because it can still get taken down. DMCA's like nintendo sends out on github however have no legal relevancy in Germany etc.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notice_and_take_down" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notice_and_take_down</a>There obviously are rules against infringement but thats out of this scope.</blockquote>

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