Somewhere along the line, maybe the early to mid 2000’s they stopped making products “for” the end-user and flipped it around so the end-user (their data) is now the product, and the customers are governments, corporations, and share holders.
Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
barsquid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Anyone else remember when new technology used to be fun and exciting instead of miserable?
spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
omarfw@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Because those shareholders (billionaires) and corporations drained the consumers of all of their money and now they’re the most profitable demographic to market to.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
shareholders
If 0.000…01% shareholders count:
Guessing a lotta us have a few bucks in index funds… suppose that ain’t cool, gotta find a principled fund.
The most principled funds must only invest in like three companies cuz every corp has some problem.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
That’s part of the reason why new community oriented projects are way more interesting to me now than most software. There are some outliers in the space who still have dedicated people in their craft rather than for money but it is fewer and farther between.
loam@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Absolutely. Although, this is just making old technology worse because web 3.0 and AI aren’t performing to corpo expectations.
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
That’s what happens when you aren’t the (sole) paying customer.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 21 hours ago
Some of it is. Just different (not mainstream) technology.
lemmeout@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Long gone are the days when I used to read update notes for new features… No I just hope they don’t god damn force an update on me.
PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I went back to an old APK of Twitch and refuse to update to the current dumpster fire.
anton2492@lemmy.nz 18 hours ago
I use PurpleTV and it’s been great. It’s a Twitch fork modified to block ads, reduce bloat, and include customisation for chat, player and other components.
Don’t know if we can share links here but the APK can be easily found online, still being updated semi-regularly. I won’t come back to the official app as long as I’m able. :)
PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
Cheers for that. I had other third party apps way back in the day but they lacked some features. Will check it out.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
Xtra is great github.com/crackededed/Xtra/
msage@programming.dev 19 hours ago
Just use Free and Open Source Software!
It can always fuck up with updates, but usually you just get more free stuff and it’s awesome.
asbestos@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
And always donate!