Local-first isn't always more private, if network requests are involved.
- Local-first isn't always more private, if network requests are involved.
- Imagine a local-first piece of software reaching out to Google with an anonymous query for [hemorrhoids cream].
- Your IP address is easy to correlate with other network requests you've sent and identify you.
- Imagine instead that you run a VM on a public cloud thousands of other users are using and it does the same anonymous query.
- Your request is drowned out by all of the other traffic exiting the same IP.