Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

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• sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • jungekatz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It has a history in the US anti trust (when the laws really worked)

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      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • jungekatz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 !

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    • somedaysoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Android isn’t in that list if you’re using something like LineageOS or GrapheneOS.

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      • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I suspect that’s a fraction of a percent of Android devices, though.

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• NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You become the product with name, address, and payment details attached to the account for improved demographic data for them to collect. Win win.

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• jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But you’re paying for the GOOD recommendations now, not the free bad ones… /s

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• Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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