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That's smart phone stuff, for some reason they've always behaved that way and people have mostly accepted it. Cortana and other Windows 10 software is turning a

That's smart phone stuff, for some reason they've always behaved that way and people have mostly accepted it. Cortana and other Windows 10 software is turning an OS that you used to be able to call your own into something completely controlled by Microsoft. It's infuriating. I was a happy windows user until they pulled these stunts. This whole year I've been working towards getting all my personal computing off of it (I'm still stuck with it for work and I work from home). Last week I finally lost it when, after a forced Windows Update, Windows Defender was re-enabled against my will (along with a few other services I went out of my way to kill) and caused %100 disk usage for over an hour. This week I'm finally booting directly into Linux and Windows 10 is running in a VM with nothing but development tools on it... and Candy Crush and some racing game because the ISO from the MS download page includes them for some reason (the "Professional" version).

api 10y ago
When I saw how privacy hostile and generally manipulative the whole mobile revolution was, I knew it was coming to other platforms too. There is just too much money to be made in surveillance and targeted advertising, especially since margins are collapsing elsewhere and people want everything to be 'free.' Surveillance is the business model of the Internet, at least in the B2C space. I'm not optimistic about it changing because frankly nobody cares. The only people who care are a small fraction of "cryppie" types and coincidentally these tend to also be the people who use FOSS and/or pirate everything. Not paying money is like not voting. Vendors have absolutely no incentive to give a damn about what you want. I am not aware of a single case where a product has been significantly harmed in the market or failed due to privacy invasion. In fact, even major security problems (also related to privacy) generally do not harm products in the long term.

api 10y ago

When I saw how privacy hostile and generally manipulative the whole mobile revolution was, I knew it was coming to other platforms too. There is just too much money to be made in surveillance and targeted advertising, especially since margins are collapsing elsewhere and people want everything to be 'free.' Surveillance is the business model of the Internet, at least in the B2C space. I'm not optimistic about it changing because frankly nobody cares. The only people who care are a small fraction of "cryppie" types and coincidentally these tend to also be the people who use FOSS and/or pirate everything. Not paying money is like not voting. Vendors have absolutely no incentive to give a damn about what you want. I am not aware of a single case where a product has been significantly harmed in the market or failed due to privacy invasion. In fact, even major security problems (also related to privacy) generally do not harm products in the long term.