You (and the upvoters) thought that this was a clever statement. But it actually was not. It was very disrespectful.
Victims of abuse most often can’t “just leave”. It’s not always that simple. It just appears simple to people far outside of abuse, having neither experienced nor witnessed it. Or, the rare case, are victims of survivorship bias, because they were in the miniscule percentage of people successfully leaving abusive enviromnente AND be smug about it afterwards. As someone working with abuse victims, it’s really never a “then just leave!”
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
First of all, has your own experience with Windows been so traumatic that you actually feel it’s proper to compare it to spousal abuse of all goddamn things?
Secondly, using emotionally manipulative false equivalences like that do nothing to further the argument, it just shuts it down by spreading feelings of guilt in the other partly.
Thirdly, people are allowed to ask for more privacy without evangelists like you crawling out of the woodwork to guilt-trip them into making a change they may not be ready for.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Might not have been the best comparison as another commenter mentioned
Sure, you can ask but you’re asking hammer to stop being a hammer. Modern Windows is not built to be private, but the opposite of it, it’s a marketing platform.
Defaced@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a little much to compare it to spousal abuse, but it’s honestly not far from the truth. As for asking for more privacy, you’re absolutely well within your right to ask for it, but it’s well within Microsoft’s right to say “fuck you I’ll spy as much as I want because you agreed to be spied upon when you agreed to our EULA that you probably didn’t actually read”.
Microsoft windows is an advertising platform now and nothing more. Windows as a home operating system is a drop in the bucket for Microsoft, they want you spending money on subscriptions for O365, Xbox gamepass, and Azure Cloud. They want enterprise SQL licensing and azure cloud licensing, they couldn’t give fuck all about some butthurt dudebro who plays call of duty, they want copilot subscribers and to be the driving force behind LLMs and AI not Meta or OpenAI. Your privacy is the last thing Microsoft will ever care about, and if you don’t take the initiative and stop using that piece of shit intrusive OS, then idk what to tell you.