forced to comply.

The language I’d expect from a villain in some fiction aimed at teenagers, not from a real person. This is so bizarre, and the amount of people ok with ceos saying those things is disturbing

As datacenters engulf more and more resources, corporations are now pushing a lot of them to third world countries under the excuse of giving us digital sovereignty, and we’re falling for it

That meme never gets old, and often gives me a good laugh. This was the one that gave me the best laugh… so far

The headline subtly implies we were already stupid lol

We tend to overestimate people’s skill in tech. The average user uses what came installed, doesn’t like installing and experimenting apps, uses a browser while logged in to google, taps yes on everything, will install apps when sites ask for it, without even noticing, and will register in every site or app that asks for it, and even give their real email, name, etc

was this research leaked from xcom?

Works, but if we think about it, it’s just a win for big tech, because we’re using their oppressive system and even buying an additional phone

Yes. They have been turning more and more restrictive

Next, they will stop allowing to register with random email without confirmation

Edit: jut found out they already did it lol. Then next step will be to require phone number for all new accounts

Suddenly?

A 5yo phone can absolutely be high end, but definitely not mine lol. It got a cheap soc, low resolution and 2gb of ram

It really looks ai-generated. It even contains mistakes like saying that my 5yo phone model with low resolution is a high end device. All the text is pretty “generic” and sloppy

One of the few things that give us hope these days is that those companies are pretty dumb and delusional, so they can fall by themselves

I have an idea. What if we make web pages with several links of useful sites, like a catalog?

The choice to force you into an app has nothing to do with this at all

If desktop users are valued more, it’s because advertisers pay more for them. If a store is willing to pay more to advertise to a desktop user, but also tries to prevent them from using the site, it sounds weird to me.

The desktop is worth more because of the assumption that you’re a corporate buyer at work. Did they state this, or is it a guess? Most corporate desktop users aren’t even the ones making the corporate purchases

A desktop user is worth 4.9x more than the same person on Android

This one is really interesting. If using a desktop is more valuable to advertisers, including online stores, why the fuck do all sites and services try to push people into using phones by degrading desktop experience!? That doesn’t make much sense

Targeted ads. I live in a third world country having its economy devastated by targeted foreign online gambling advertisements and I can tell you the consequences are severe and in large scale.

People think they’re not targets because they don’t do certain things, but not being part of a group also says a lot about you! User blocking ads? This is information about you. User doesn’t buy online? Also information about you. Everything is information and everything together is a valuable consumer profile

I’m not the person you asked, but depending on the country you live, the good places like restaurants and markets may not be online, so we have to use good old word of mouth to find them. I used to search for all places online, but I had to learn the way of my ancestors to find the good stuff around here, because the places listed online are always the most expensive and presumptuous, while lacking actual quality.

But for things like electronics, cars and anything not available locally, it’s really hard to even imagine viable anternatives to searching in the internet