We’ve squandered the ‘personal’ part of personal computing. A lot of this tracking nonsense is enabled by services which rely on server side processing. For e

We’ve squandered the ‘personal’ part of personal computing. A lot of this tracking nonsense is enabled by services which rely on server side processing. For example somewhere lower down someone mentioned an AI assitant to extract todos from your emails. This might not be so bad if the AI was running on your machine. But of course it’s always running on some cloud server. For another example, any of those Alexa like devices have to analyse your voice input serverside. If it could do text to speech with local processing then it would be possible to make the device much more respectful of your privacy. If you want total contol over your data, you have to use programs that can be used totally offline. Regrettably everything is subscription now. Hold on to your perpetually licenced software if you still have any!