If you’re not paying, you’re the product. If you’re paying, you may still be the product.
Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App
1984@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I thought if people pay for things, like extreamly expensive Apple hardware, no ads can exist there? Must be confused or hearing things.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Open source is the exception, and it’s important to note that.
Now you may be thinking “well duh”, but I’ve seen plenty of people, even fairly techy people, refuse to use good FOSS software because they think they’re being monetised somehow and that because there’s no ads, it must be from secret data theft.
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
and sometimes you don’t pay and aren’t the product, yay open source!
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Enshitification isn’t a problem of people being bad at buying stuff.
theoriginalcows@lemmings.world 3 days ago
If you’re paying, you
mayare still be the product.Can we stop being stupid for once
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
This isn’t Reddit. No need to be unnecessarily abrasive.
IndridCold@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Oh fuck dude. You made coffee come out my nose.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 days ago
Who said that?
1984@lemmy.today 3 days ago
It was generally believed about a year ago that ads would only show up in free products, like Google search, or whatever.
Now we see them in cars, Apple software and all sorts of very expensive products.
Because its never enough ads.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 days ago
It was generally believed about a year ago that ads would only show up in free products
It definitely was not lol. Ads have been in paid products for literal decades by this point.
1984@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Maybe in some products but not a lot. We didnt have ads in Netflix, we didnt have ads in cars, we didnt have ads in tv sets and so on. You probably know this.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
The business majors are about to learn an important lesson about open source.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Are they though? The top valued companies in the world are balls-deep in advertising and data collection.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Those companies need people to believe they don’t have a choice present them with a choice and watch the ad people freak the fuck out.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lol, lmao even.
You have unrealistic views of the common person’s technical acumen if you think this is going to have an impact of more than fraction of a percent, if that.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
They don’t need to know the technical side of it to understand “this is cheaper, it doesn’t have ads plastered everywhere”
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They also don’t need to know the technical side of it to say ‘wow, this app doesn’t work and/or it’s out of date’ to close it and go back to something that works,/fits their use case, even if it has ads.
I’ve tried to get people to use FOSS alternatives, but most would rather it work with no effort and deal with a lesser experience than having to fight with it to make it do what the other app does natively.