One implication: in the vein of being the change you want to see in the world, all us 'enlightened' folks need to play with a lot more bespoke browsers and user agents and protocols. It's the only way to carve out an oasis in the desert of monopolies and winner-takes-all.
I recently replaced the link to my email everywhere on my website with one to this 'contact' page:
http://akkartik.name/contact