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The worst is a market facade for a government service. Examples in the US: - Weather apps: various governments do the (very expensive) computing and provide th
by dguest 2y ago
The worst is a market facade for a government service. Examples in the US:
- Weather apps: various governments do the (very expensive) computing and provide the data for free. Private companies insert adds, or charge you. I use Yr, which is run by Norway and has no adds or fees. They are just sourcing public data [1].
- Taxes: the government does all the bookkeeping and enforcement, tax prep industry copies and pastes numbers into forms it lobbies to obfuscate.
[1]: https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/articles/360004008874-Weather-forecasts-on-Yr-how-are-they-made https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/articles/360004008874-Weather-f...
- pjc50 2y agoAnother variant is the "playing at shops" privatization, such as seen in the UK railway system. Lots of different, fragmented entities, none of which naturally corresponds to a train service as a whole, obfuscating where the money goes (it's the train landlords or ROSCOs).
- internet_points 2y agoThey did the same to Norwegian rail. In fact, one of the main companies that got involved in the enshittification of Norwegain rail was British Go-Ahead Group.
- Deukhoofd 2y agoWe had the same in The Netherlands. Several weather apps that requested to share all your data with a bunch of partners, had ads, etc. Then our national weather institute launched their own app without tracking or ads, and the existing weather apps all immediately joined up to sue them over it. Thankfully they lost the case. https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisatie/Rechtbanken/Rechtbank-Den-Haag/Nieuws/Paginas/KNMI-hoeft-weerapp-niet-aan-te-passen.aspx https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisati...