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I hate that they put ads in the Settings pane at all. Can't I just get an operating system that operates the system and doesn't try to shove ads or news in my f
by snapcaster 4y ago
I hate that they put ads in the Settings pane at all. Can't I just get an operating system that operates the system and doesn't try to shove ads or news in my face? fucking exasperating, it seems like no company is able to avoid the temptation to shit up their stuff
- 20after4 4y agoIt's much more than a temptation. It's the primary purpose of a commercial entity. Free software still wins this one every time.
- tpmoney 4y agoFree software might be better about this, but it is by no means free of it. NPM packages are the biggest offenders but “please donate / send me coffee / check out my other projects / subscribe to this service” notes have been in installation scripts and sometimes within the application itself for years. Multiple packages stuffed their scripts full of Ukraine flags at the beginning of the war. So even free software isn’t immune to using the platform to advertise other things.