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Then vote with your feet and your wallet by leaving. You need to send monetary signals that the service is undesirable by withdrawing your subscription. I don't
by ryandv 2y ago
Then vote with your feet and your wallet by leaving. You need to send monetary signals that the service is undesirable by withdrawing your subscription. I don't understand why people continue to use tools that don't serve them and assume, by default, that because everyone else is on some platform, that I must be there too, or don't go into an actual cost-benefit analysis of whether or not the utility of the platform outweighs the drawbacks. Cal Newport comments on this default herd mentality in Deep Work:
The Any-Benefit Approach to Network Tool Selection: You’re justified in
using a network tool if you can identify any possible benefit to its use,
or anything you might possibly miss out on if you don’t use it.
In the case of Google the diminishing utility of search began to be outweighed by the increasing morass of SEO slop and advertisements, so I degoogled. After W7 when it was clear Windows was going to progress into a cloud-based ad delivery platform, I installed Linux on all my devices as a daily driver. If Netflix ever serves me ads, I am immediately terminating my subscription.
Maybe it's too hard for some people.
- shiroiushi 2y ago>Then vote with your feet and your wallet by leaving. Yep, that's what I keep saying too, but I always either get ignored, downvoted to oblivion, or responses about how X is "necessary" because of Y (which isn't really very critical anyway, but I guess to them is, like "I must be able to play game Z!!!"). You can lead a horse...