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> Our computers are increasingly designed to be little more than advertising platforms and vehicles for maximizing the cloud revenues of their true owners This
by a5withtrrs 6y ago
> Our computers are increasingly designed to be little more than advertising platforms and vehicles for maximizing the cloud revenues of their true owners
This applies so much to modern Windows operating systems that it's frankly disgusting. I think most phones are also solidly in this space as well.
Apple is marginally better, but their efforts to ram iCloud services down your throat at every available opportunity is pretty obvious as well. Plus the amount of things that mysteriously call home. On the plus side, they don't actively send you ads baked into your lock screen or start menu.
- meowster 6y agoApparently Apple will display ads for Safari on the desktop if you run Edge. https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-opened-microsoft-edge-and-apple-got-angry/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-opened-microsoft-edge-and-ap...
- samb1729 6y agoThe style of writing in that article[0] is utterly infuriating to read or even skim for facts. For anyone else unlucky enough to want to know what happened here: - Microsoft Edge on macOS is apparently a thing that exists (I was not aware of this) - If you install and open Edge on macOS, a notification titled “Try the new Safari” appears on the top right of the display, claiming Safari is “Fast, energy efficient, and with a beautiful design” - The linked article is basically a tweetstorm made worse by being surrounded by distractions. [0]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-opened-microsoft-edge-and-apple-got-angry/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-opened-microsoft-edge-and-ap...