News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:They made computers behave like annoying salesmen by tgsovlerkhgsel on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @02:06PM (#43774916)
The problem with that is that this is often not a real choice. You don't get to pick individual properties, you get to pick from a (usually pretty small) selection of products which bundle a lot of properties together, and these annoyances are usually not deal-breaking enough to cancel the other reasons why you are using that product.

Often, there simply is no respectful alternative because everyone is doing it, or the respectful alternative is utterly useless due to other issues, or the disrespectful platform is the exclusive distributor for some content that you really want to access.

The platforms/apps know this and generally get more abusive the less alternatives you have.

Re:They made computers behave like annoying salesmen by otterley on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @03:31PM (#43775823)
You might be surprised to learn just how much technology and entertainment you can live without.