Are they though? The top valued companies in the world are balls-deep in advertising and data collection.
Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoThe business majors are about to learn an important lesson about open source.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 months ago
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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They also don’t need to know the technical side of it to say ‘wow, this app doesn’t work and/or it’s out of date’ to close it and go back to something that works,/fits their use case, even if it has ads.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.