ISP’s give us access to the Internet. And we pay them for it. Google makes money via ad aggregation. We already know they were able to do this without siphoning up all your data because they literally made money doing it before 2004 when they launched Gmail. What you’re talking about already exists though. User subscriptions for Email, VPN’s, Search Engines etc already exist and people are using them. People are paying for them.

People also generally understand that if they aren’t paying for a service then they are the product. The thing is though, lots of those people are fine with ads so long as the ads don’t get in the way of them enjoying the product. If I open a website they don’t need to have a full page ad open up when the site page loads. But they do that anyway and that’s what people are largely pushing back against.

Additionally, if these companies want our data? They should do a much better job of safeguarding it, or be held responsible in a meaningful way.

I’d love to know what you do when you can’t find a DVD still in print? Media companies like Disney and Paramount etc have been deliberately limiting the number of DVD’s and other physical formats available, putting whole movies and series “in the vault” for the purposes of manufacturing scarcity. Piracy is largely a matter of economic affordability and ease of access. I can pirate. The point is when I had these titles available to buy, I bought media rather than pirate it. I preferred to. And when it’s not easily available or locked to specific services I’m boycotting etc there’s few avenues left. I can appreciate that you were trying to give me a legal avenue to obtain what I want, but I feel like you missed the forest for the trees here.

Looks like from a cursory search only 12 of them available of about 22.

I was. Until they made that so difficult and time consuming that the barrier to entry was too high. Not because of the price. But because of availability. When Google play music was a thing? I bought music. When streaming took over I moved to Bandcamp. But Bandcamp doesn’t have everything. There’s no music stores anymore where I can just go and buy music. It’s all Amazon and similar.

I’d love to own the ghibli collection. But to get it I have to buy the DVD’s (and have a DVD player to play them on), or I have to pirate them. No digital store front seems to have the whole collection. This happens all the time with media that I’m willing to pay for.

I think someone is stealing some of my 6 billion for themselves. Just some. Not all. Just. Some.

This is Lemmy. You’re the 30billionth to tell me.

https://thehackernews.com/2017/06/wikileaks-Brutal-Kangaroo-airgap-malware.html?m=1

Had no idea what this was but the article is fascinating. It’s sort of… Werewolf-esque or like Clue but at the same time more like… Return of the Obra Dinn. I think I would still consider it an RPG.

People are lonely. They lack the kinds of interactions in their lives that make them feel comfortable and more importantly allow them to feel seen or understood. The mindless scrolling temporarily fills the void they have in human interaction while allowing them to interact themselves if/when they want to.

Humans are “addicted” to human interaction and the algorithms take advantage of that fact to make a product out of them.

Additionally, human brains seek out novelty. A lot of our day to day lives are filled with work and duties (chores, bills, children) etc. People in the 1920’s weren’t addicted to the news paper. They needed something to do with their free time that didn’t break the bank. Increasingly there’s just not that many things that you can put down to switch gears that fit that bill.

He decided to kiss the ring. People don’t like that.

Of course I am. Fuck ICE.

"Thank you for responding. It’s not nearly as polarizing as you suggest once you look at the numbers.

The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) was advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 20, 2022, with a 16-6 bipartisan vote.

Senators who voted in favor (Yes):

Democrats:

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

Senator Christopher Coons (D-DE)

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)

Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI)

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA)

Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

Republicans:

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)

Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC)

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)

Senators who voted against (No):

Republicans:

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE)

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO)

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)

Now tell us again how the “bipartisan” bill where EVERY NO VOTE IS REPUBLICAN is evidence that the Democrats are not committed to antitrust reform?

Schumer didn’t oppose the bill. You know very well that he made a strategic decision to not bring the bill to a vote because the Silicon Valley tech bros opposed the bill and THANKS TO CITIZENS UNITED, their money is SPEECH.

The people who brought you that decision were ALL REPUBLICAN appointees. Every single one.

In a 50/50 divided Senate (with two independents in the D column but Sinema and Manchin working against the caucus), there was a POLITICAL REALITY to contend with. Sadly, the money screws up everyone.

You are 100% wrong about this alleged reversal of “little guy” roles, and you seem to be deliberately obtuse about the facts."

This is a quote directly from the reddit thread where he made his secondary statement after the first one on shitter went viral. Context is important and he still has yet to actually answer to this.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2024/11/04/how-gerrymandering-could-help-deliver-the-presidency-to-donald-trump/

Technically you can. But there’s more to it than simply drawing up districts to influence the Electoral College.

I agree generally with what this says. However, in the most recent ban in Australia, we don’t even know how they’re going to make this law enforceable, and VPN’s do still work at the moment. The people it detrimentally effects havebeen given a headstart here and they know it. VPN’s are just the tip of the iceberg.

ROFL They aren’t a solution. But they will be the solution for anyone wanting to get around them.

This comment is not the original. He changed it.

https://archive.ph/quYyb

Yeah. I don’t disagree with that. But I think it’s rather more about (from what I can see in the original comment) not the techcrunch media coverage, but the idea that techcrunch runs lots of articles about meta and Facebook, not all of them aimed at the problems with the platform and there is no cohesion (in each of these posts), explaining each time they have before given info on leaving Facebook and the important events that lead them to do so.

The article doesn’t really start off with a “haven’t we been here before”, or anything acknowledging what came before. Perhaps that’s their complaint.

The Cambridge Analytica thing happened in 2018. I think the point is that Facebook has been a bad platform for awhile now and these recent articles don’t do justice to their history and appear extremely inflammatory as a result.

They won’t automatically use your phone bill to bolster your credit but they will use it as a form of authentication. That’s the infuriating part to me. Miss a payment? Your credit score can drop. Make every payment on time? Nothing.

If they don’t know that you want it disconnected or never wanted it connected in the first place they’re likely to just tell you if it’s active or that it’s not at the request of the owner and then ask if you want it connected. If you play dumb and non-accusatory. That’s all I’m saying.