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Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I have nothing against advertising in general, but I won't tolerate OS-level advertising and I don't want ad-subsidized hardware.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, best we can do is a premium (expensive) ad-free tier that still advertises our own products.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

John Deere wants a word.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Gotta pay for the OS somehow. The previous system ended up with tons of unpatched out-of-support machines spreading malware.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I'll install my own OS, thank you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] conciselyverbose 1 points 4 months ago

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.