@technovangelist In this video you say: “Now, you might be thinking this goes against everything Ollama stands for, but I think it's totally in line with the original goals that we had when we started building Ollama.”
Yeah, I'm thinking that! And, not having been in the room, I have no idea what your plans were. All I know is the constant Ollama messaging about privacy by running on-device, which these moves are in opposition to.
This feels like enshitification to me. First I get pop ups telling me to download the new OpenAI oss models (ads in Ollama?). Then I learn that when using the new “toggle web search" button, Ollama doesn't just send the minimal search data for MCP; it sends the entire query to the “Ollama cloud”. That was a choice. Not a privacy oriented choice.
The number of companies that have destroyed trust over privacy issues recently is too numerous to list. I'm curious as to the details of Ollama’s business deal with OpenAI. "Trust me, we don't store your query" doesn't cut it in 2025. Can a intrusion attack get your query? The government wherever the server is running?
Love your videos. Sorry to be critical of your alma mater, but privacy is super safety critical today.
#enshittification #privacy #ollama #openai
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