If MS would sell me a license to own my computer, I would buy it, but they don’t offer that. Instead it’s ads and spam and data collection. And I want nothing to do with that.

I kind of feel like that about Google's services (to a lesser extent). Like, Google produces some really outstanding services. YouTube is great, and I'd have no problem with paying for it. But I have no idea whether, if I buy YouTube Premium or whatever Google calls it, I can buy privacy or whether it's just going to mean that they can link my data to my financial information and carry on data-mining.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

I mean theoretically you don't have to pay for anything, just disable it in your account settings, but I don't believe any of that for a single second.