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Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment
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this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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I have nothing against advertising in general, but I won't tolerate OS-level advertising and I don't want ad-subsidized hardware.
Sorry, best we can do is a premium (expensive) ad-free tier that still advertises our own products.
I don't have a problem with a streaming service doing that. Hardware, no. If I bought it, I own it and the manufacturer can fuck right off.
Ya, but if you do that, how are we supposed to make money off you on a monthly basis after you already bought the product?
John Deere wants a word.
I actually dont understand why news and such written blogs stopped with sponsors. I dont want tracking pixels, autoplaying videos and all that bullshit. Have a static small paragraph with a referral link, thats it.
For example on adventofcode, there was a static ad for spotify job application. This is an ad which i can advocate for. Creator of the site gets money, the ad is not intrusive, and it targets programmers who would just naturally navigate to this site.
Gotta pay for the OS somehow. The previous system ended up with tons of unpatched out-of-support machines spreading malware.
I'll install my own OS, thank you
I did, when I bought the device. And if the manufacturer does a good job, I'll recommend them to friends and family and likely buy more of their products.
The FOSS community does most of the heavy lifting with security updates anyway. Most of these things are running Linux, so they've already helped themselves to that community's work.
Because 95% of them based their shit on Linux but refused to provide the shit available for the community to take over support.
Any OS with ads is malware.