Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App
theoriginalcows@lemmings.world 2 weeks agoApple should’ve never created a team that sold ads on their platforms.
Why not? If stupid users are willing to accept it, the business is obligated to do it.
It’s the world we’ve built for ourselves.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mmmmm, corpo defense via victim blaming. You love to see it.
Next up, Microsoft is obligated to install 24/7 spyware on all ststems because tech incompetent users don’t know how to use anything else.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Indeed. Between 150 and 40 years ago a “platform” that sold devices and also vertically owned everything up to and including the advertising business on those devices would have been illegal. Even AT&T didn’t try to mess with the actual content of your phone conversations, despite de facto being given a get-out-of-jail-free card with regards to monopolistic behaviour for 70 years. This isn’t a matter of people being bad at buying stuff.
theoriginalcows@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Since users are proud to accept and defend their abuse, they should get more of it.
Nothing will change until useful idiots recognize their contributions to the problem.