<story><title>Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster</title><url>https://www.mightyapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IceWreck</author><text>The Cloud is just someone else&amp;#x27;s computer.&lt;p&gt;As a self hoster, nothing irks me more that more software that takes control from the user to some random third party.&lt;p&gt;And I fail to see why anyone would use this, you need high speed internet capable of streaming 4k for one and if you have access to that, then chances are you also have access to a sufficiently powerful computer capable of running chrome locally.&lt;p&gt;Coming to security, this is a complete disaster. All your traffic including passwords are going to a third party server and you have to trust that server to not do anything shady.&lt;p&gt;This cant be economical either, or will be too expensive.&lt;p&gt;And the testimonial on the website, I find it hard to believe that a CEO of a company cannot afford a powerful computer but can afford a (presumably expensive) subscription service giving them access to a video stream of a browser running on powerful hardware.&lt;p&gt;Like another user said VNC can already do this, and much more without the electron wrapper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>api</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty rare that I root for a company to crash and burn on principle. I&amp;#x27;m an entrepreneur myself so it takes a lot for me to go there.&lt;p&gt;I hope every single one of these cloud-streamed remote-app or remote-OS plays fails and fails hard. They&amp;#x27;re helping lead the Internet and the computing ecosystem in an even more dystopian direction. I&amp;#x27;ve been happy to see Stadia not really take off.&lt;p&gt;So lets say this succeeds. Then Google or Facebook buys it. Now all your browser sessions including passwords, keys, authentication codes, private messages, etc. are globally visible to be data mined.&lt;p&gt;Who&amp;#x27;s to say they&amp;#x27;re not doing this already?&lt;p&gt;What if this is hacked?&lt;p&gt;This is worse than that Amazon idea of giving Amazon delivery people keys to your house. In the physical world it&amp;#x27;s pretty easy to see people when they come in your front door. In the digital world you have no idea what these people are doing with your data. There is zero situational awareness.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster</title><url>https://www.mightyapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IceWreck</author><text>The Cloud is just someone else&amp;#x27;s computer.&lt;p&gt;As a self hoster, nothing irks me more that more software that takes control from the user to some random third party.&lt;p&gt;And I fail to see why anyone would use this, you need high speed internet capable of streaming 4k for one and if you have access to that, then chances are you also have access to a sufficiently powerful computer capable of running chrome locally.&lt;p&gt;Coming to security, this is a complete disaster. All your traffic including passwords are going to a third party server and you have to trust that server to not do anything shady.&lt;p&gt;This cant be economical either, or will be too expensive.&lt;p&gt;And the testimonial on the website, I find it hard to believe that a CEO of a company cannot afford a powerful computer but can afford a (presumably expensive) subscription service giving them access to a video stream of a browser running on powerful hardware.&lt;p&gt;Like another user said VNC can already do this, and much more without the electron wrapper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dheera</author><text>I imagine VNC can&amp;#x27;t do this well because it streams pixels with no optimizations other than antiquated compression (it can&amp;#x27;t even match WebRTC screen sharing), and crappy color depth.&lt;p&gt;The idea is interesting for lightweight computers e.g. chromebooks and ultrabooks, but it would irk me a lot to have my browser and personal information running on some other machine that I don&amp;#x27;t control.&lt;p&gt;What I would be super-interested in though is a self-hosted version of Mighty, that I could install on a Linux box anywhere of my choosing. For example, the server runs on my powerful desktop at home, and my ultrabook in the bedroom can be a client.</text></comment>