• snekerpimp@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    He touches on my major issue with all these companies, data mining without compensating the people that created that data. I have to pay for the operating system, get served ads, AND you get to make extra money off my information too? This kind of shenanigans would be tolerable with a free OS, or maybe one that compensated you like brave browser. The blatant fleecing of the consumer here is sickening. I’m glad data mining your screenshots is the last straw for people.

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      6 months ago

      Too bad he didn’t touch the real issue with Linux for most people: lack of their industry favorite proprietary software.

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        6 months ago

        If Linux suddenly started gaining traction on a bigger scale, Microsoft would make a user-facing proprietary distro and those bastards would still flock to it.

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          6 months ago

          Most likely yeah :D After all even the other community got burned by CentOS and decided to move to Ubuntu in mass instead of picking a true open-source distro…

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              6 months ago

              It is, but it’s also made by the same company that from time to time likes to add spyware into things… or fork open-source projects and change licenses just because they felt like it. Using Ubuntu on a professional environment has the same risks that using CentOS had, we never know when someone at Canonical will change the license and fuck everyone over.

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      6 months ago

      I’ve been screaming about this since I found out Re:CAPTCHA was using us to train AI. We should definitely be compensated.

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      6 months ago

      I’m not ok with data mining under literally any circumstances. There are some things which just shouldn’t be done.