Interesting that TBL identifies exactly 6 platforms as "harmful" (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X, YouTube), but the solution of personal data wallets doesn't address why those platforms are harmful. Centralizing user data in pods doesn't solve addictive algorithms or misinformation; those are business model problems, not technical ones.

I can't read the article, so I don't really know what he's said here. While I think there are far more platforms that are harmful than the six he listed, what that number is is largely beside the point.

The point is that it's become impossible to use most of the web without being spied on. That means it doesn't matter if "most of the web is good". You can't get there without exposing yourself to the bad.