wiki-user: dreadbeef

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  • you gladly feed them your viewing habits to increase their value to their shareholders though 🤷

    you aren’t hurting their bottom line by not watching ads. You’re just making a tiny dent into a single line of thousands on some slides on the evp of youtube’s quarterly presentation. No one else notices.

    Your data and viewing habits and patterns and all of the device info you leak and broadcast? The wifi signals your phone is always seeing? Oh that bluetooth device that just rode past your apartment while your blocking ads on youtube? Definitely not being seen by them. Apps are spyware these days, and they are spying on everything











  • “We have all this hardware and no consumers because businesses just buy up the competition who were using us, and fire the workers. We need to sell it, but to who? All corporate entities who aren’t dying already picked a cloud provider landlord. We own the enterprise market. Who else can we rent seek from?”

    Your democrats and republicans are going to cross the aisle to help these guys own your hardware and operating systems. They are already killing open source 3d printers in new york for ‘gun safety’ purposes. Democrats and republicans crossing that aisle certainly is for the benefit of the people and not corporations who will create the software that can’t print 3d guns. This, but for computers is next.

    “Owning your operating system is for protecting children! We don’t want them printing guns or talking to strangers online!”



  • No doubt, but meshtastic really is a temporary solution, but a very good solution since it’s only necessary for a temporary amount of time. I’m just saying there aren’t really many cases outside of a catastrophic mass human extinction event that would disable the internet infrastructure beyond maybe a few years if that. Won’t be a library of alexandria moment from a connectivity side, but which servers are still up is the real question