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It's ridiculous that it requires a law to make companies dial back the pushy advertising and user-hostility on a product the user has ostensibly paid for, but h
by theodric 3y ago
It's ridiculous that it requires a law to make companies dial back the pushy advertising and user-hostility on a product the user has ostensibly paid for, but here we are
- shiroiuma 3y agoIf you don't like it, don't buy it or use it. There are alternative OSes that don't have these problems.
- theodric 3y agoYou're talking to me, specifically, or just the wind? I'm a Linux user who still owns a MacBook that won't be replaced when it quits. This doesn't affect me, but that doesn't mean I think everyone else who uses Windows because they have to, or don't know better, or aren't technical enough to deal with Linux, or don't have time to deal with its fiddliness and fragility, or aren't rich enough to buy a Mac should suffer.
- wkat4242 3y agoOf course but most people have no clue how to install an alternative OS. This law is not for us techies but for those people.
- solarkraft 3y agoOh, so I just chose one of the many equally compatible, usable and accessible operating systems! "Just don't buy it" is inversely proportionately silly to how many options people have (and how educated they are about them). In this case they have 2 that are roughly similarly viable and the vendors of both are increasingly pushing their services. Consumer protection has been invented because it has been found that consumers don't deserve some types of harm, even or especially if they haven't been able to educate themselves about it and the market hasn't been efficient enough to provide (viable) non-harmful alternatives.
- pjmlp 3y agoIndeed, they have other problems though.
- shiroiuma 3y agoEverything has problems; you have to choose which problems you're willing to live with. For me at least, ads in an OS is simply not acceptable.
- pjmlp 3y agoI guess that also makes Apple, Google and some Linux distributions not an option as well.
- prmoustache 3y agoNot too hard to live without them. I am curious at which Linux distributions are showing ads to you? I have yet to see one doing that.
- pjmlp 3y agoUbuntu, Red-Hat, SuSE. Assuming the HN definition of ads, where any kind of service promotion is shown.
- prmoustache 3y agoI've only ever seen the terminal on ubuntu and rhel machines in recent years so that must be the reason. At least they haven't started polluting our bash profiles.
- pjmlp 3y agoUbuntu terminal apt will gladly show ads for Ubuntu Pro subscription, as an example.
- eviks 3y agoThere are also alternative ways to effect change in addition to don't buy/use it. Just like there are bigger issues with alternative OSes
- maximus-decimus 3y agoSure, let me just tell my boss I now refuse to work on Windows.
- prmoustache 3y agoI did a long time ago and I have been using linux exclusively for nearly 10 years in a the 3 last companies I have been working for. With nearly everything being web based these days it has become much easier than the decades before.
- theknocker 3y ago[dead]