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... and you continue to let them abuse you.
by Hizonner 5mo ago
... and you continue to let them abuse you.
- Larrikin 5mo agoGive a solution
- skinfaxi 5mo agoDon't give your money to these places? HSBC won't let me use my rooted phone either, so guess who lost my business?
- Larrikin 5mo agoNext time we will go to the professional baseball stadium across the street instead.
- ofieiehdiehe 5mo agoYou can’t have your cake and eat it too. If you want this stop, you gotta stop using these services, even if it means sacrificing a hobby. If, on the other hand, you care more about your hobby than these quirks annoy you, than by all means, go right ahead.
- Larrikin 5mo agoI'd rather try and get the executives, product managers, and engineers who implemented it fired and elect politicians that will make policies like that illegal. I could go to a baseball game last year and have been able to for decades. The march to enshittification isn't inevitable. Otherwise there will be no hobbies in the future, and I'll be hoarding my money to just sit in my house doing nothing.
- Hizonner 5mo ago> I'd rather try and get the executives, product managers, and engineers who implemented it fired How has that been working out for you? Apparently you have some avenue to apply pressure for that, other than the obvious one of not buying the tickets. Why should anybody fire them, given that their actions have caused no actual harm to the bottom line? Obviously the ticket buyers don't care, so why should management or owners care? > and elect politicians that will make policies like that illegal. Sounds great. Who do I vote for?
- ofieiehdiehe 5mo agoI agree with you in principle, but reality is far and away from this, unfortunately. These types of companies need an incentive to change their ways, and money is the only language they know how to speak—and in “they” I’m including all the executives, product managers, engineers and, ESPECIALLY, the politicians you spoke about. Money will always trump morals when it comes to companies that voluntarily elect to put such shady deals in practice.
- esseph 5mo agoPeople would quit the sport before to stop. They won't.
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- lightedman 5mo agoThe solution is to quit frequenting places that abuse you like this. But it seems you LIKE being abused.
- xethos 5mo agoIt's not necessarily enjoying it. OP evidently just thinks the trade-off is worth it. Some people like baseball more than researching which phone they can buy, which one has an unlockable bootloader, and which is supported (even unofficially) by LineageOS. That's fine. They don't have to. Their solution can be calling their local representative and complaining that the stadium their city is paying for, is locking them out.
- plagiarist 5mo agoI had forgotten that we are paying billionaires to own stadia. Cannot find funding for schools or libraries but we can sure pay someone who doesn't need the money so they can build a monument to their own ego.
- pwg 5mo agoStop buying their tickets.
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- plagiarist 5mo agoThe solution is to not buy the tickets
- dredmorbius 5mo agoBoycott. Lawsuit. Organise. Publicise. Shame.
- okanat 5mo agoLobby the government for providing basic guarantees for ease of access in digital environment. Some political factions like the Pirate Party in EU is already working on acts like Digital Fairness Act to prevent such monopolies. You can have (or provide) a phone that's specifically for those use cases and you can turn it off for actual communication.