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One hopes that the new CEO will realize the turn towards ads is ruining the Apple brand and pull back on that front.
Ha! No company has ever reversed enshittification.
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The "eww" part is that normally, anytime you see "talk to us for a price", that means someone is charging an absurdly high amount for the good or service.
I see, the thing is we are very new and plan on launching soon. We are still trying to figure out our B2C/D2C pricing.
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I see, the thing is we are very new and plan on launching soon. We are still trying to figure out our B2C/D2C pricing.
I would suggest making the wording something more like "Launching soon, contact us for pre-release information". Same end result but it avoids the association with overpriced enterprise providers.
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Absolutely correct. My comment intention was if you want to make one yourself and get the experience of all shows +movies.
Did OP say "I want something vaguely similar that requires a greater investment of my time and money"? Did you in any way indicate that's what you were proposing?
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No, your IP will be easily tracked to you as an individual. You'll just suffer the consequences of whatever your streaming stick does with your IP. If your stick clicks a bunch of ads for fast food your heath insurance bill goes up because their algorithm thinks you're a higher risk. If your streaming stick clicks a bunch of ads for high end luxury goods, online stores start charging you more than they charge your ne…
None of this is based on reality. Can you show any of this ever happened to anyone?
None of the data being collected about you ever goes away. It doesn't matter if the data comes from you. or your backdoored streaming stick, the more data they have associated with you, the more opportunists exist for you to be screwed over by it.
It's almost impossible for a person to know when or how their offline life is being influenced because of the dossiers containing their online activity, but it absolutely impacts the prices you pay, the policies businesses will tell you they have, the opportunities you are offered, and even how long companies leave you on hold when you call them on the phone.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/data-brokers-selling-personal-i...
https://web.archive.org/web/20191130221040/https://www.nytim...
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/s41272-019-002...
https://www.mccarter.com/insights/ftc-surveillance-pricing-s...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/17/6294415...
https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/how-employers-spy-on-your-sear...
https://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/16/data-mining-is-now-used-to-s...
https://www.wired.com/story/minnesota-lawmaker-shootings-peo...
https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-data-brokers-are-a-threa...
https://sites.sanford.duke.edu/techpolicy/wp-content/uploads...
https://epic.org/data-broker-helped-anti-abortion-group-targ...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nsa-purchases-americans-int...
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2014/04/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/senate-votes-to-...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/data-brokers-netflow-data-te...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymo...
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Reduction in what practice? Are there big companies doing ad fraud? I want big companies to stop spying on me, which is a completely different issue.
They're not at all "completely different issues." Both are well within the category of "If you buy a device to do a thing, then the device does something else that is not readily apparent to the user that user would find objectionable if they had clearer knowledge." This is immoral and harmful regardless of precise vector/action.
But also the spying is expected by a lot of people. And a lot of people wouldn't object so much to screwing up internet ads.
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None of this is based on reality. Can you show any of this ever happened to anyone?
This should get you started at least. Keep in mind that nobody is going to tell you that they charged you extra or didn't give you a job offer because of data collected from a data broker. No one is going to be transparent about how they use your data against you. None of the data being collected about you ever goes away. It doesn't matter if the data comes from you. or your backdoored streaming stick, the more data…
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For instance, if you use an Apple phone and the government wants to see the pictures you took, they can just get a copy of them from Apple using iCloud.
Yes, using a warrant from a court. If the government wants to break into my house they can also do that with a warrant. Not exactly the same as having a key to my house though, and very far from a malware. Also to be more specific, In apple ecosystem I can opt for encryption where they can't
A familly member had one of those (he had to pay a yearly subscription in addition to the stick). Network would be unusable as soon as it was on for anyone else, and it also tried to scan things on the local network. It was indeed connecting to all kind of services all over the world (and saturating some tables in the router doing so which blocked other clients). Definitely evil, definitely on purpose.
If it wasn't scanning your own network or using all of your bandwidth, would you still consider it evil?
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I think it's really far fetched to say capitalism is bad idea. It's great system, it has some problems, but the upside is so big and alternatives are so bad that it's really unfair to call it bad system.
Yh, the end of civilisation is a good thing after all, so enabling greedy fuckers to accelerate all life on Earth ever more rapidly towards destruction has to be good ...