You become the product with name, address, and payment details attached to the account for improved demographic data for them to collect. Win win.
Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?
rubikcuber@feddit.uk 10 months ago
If you’re not paying you are the product. If you ARE paying you are STILL the product. This is how big tech works.
NightOwl@lemmy.one 10 months ago
jarfil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But you’re paying for the GOOD recommendations now, not the free bad ones… /s
Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s not how big tech works, it’s how DRM works. It is possible to sell music/games/movies in an ethical way, without DRM.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Basically every computer hardware manufacturer is collecting telemetry and sending it home. If you’re using MacOS or Windows, your OS is doing it aswell
essteeyou@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or Android, or iOS, or a Chromebook, or whatever other OS you’re using next year, if it isn’t some sort of Linux/UNIX system… and even some of those might not be great, but at least you can find out.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean… Android and ChromeOS are Linux underneath. MacOS is… related to Unix. Hang on, I need to look up that lineage…
Also Lineage.
Edit: MacOS used/uses the Mach kernel, and uses code “derived from BSD”, vague as Wikipedia is. That could mean it’s a whole copy-paste or that it just borrows ideas from BSD.
jungekatz@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It has a history in the US anti trust (when the laws really worked)
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
MacOS has userland tools from some FreeBSD version (quite obsolete, IIRC). Also there’s a port of bhyve called xhyve for MacOS. Its kernel I wouldn’t expect to have much in common with BSDs.
jungekatz@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Tbh i have used linux on my home pc for years now and now they are very polished products , except most corporate apps are not there !
somedaysoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Android isn’t in that list if you’re using something like LineageOS or GrapheneOS.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I suspect that’s a fraction of a percent of Android devices, though.