Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App

• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  and sometimes you don’t pay and aren’t the product, yay open source!

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• Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Enshitification isn’t a problem of people being bad at buying stuff.

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• theoriginalcows@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you’re paying, you may are still be the product.

  Can we stop being stupid for once

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This isn’t Reddit. No need to be unnecessarily abrasive.

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