I read the article but I’m worried about the implementation which you won’t be able to choose and while you can change server realistically not many people will even know this happened.
I hope the focus is privacy and people and this change dowsn’t have people in mind.
I thought the fediverse was a way to give back the power to the users. This doesn’t seem great. I don’t want mastodon to be famous because it’s useful to companies but because it’s useful to people.
I don’t know the details but hopefully they do something similar to firefox https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/03/22/firefox-87-trims-http-referrers-by-default-to-protect-user-privacy/
The blog states it’s still missing a lot of stuff and it’s a work in progress. If they have to implement every type of fediverse post like peertube, Pixelfed. Loops, etc it’s gonna take some effort.
I assume that’s the goal after reading the post but of course we will see.