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[Rant] I hate the modern internet (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by kapx132@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I am fucking scared of the mass surveilence nightmare direction that the internet and the world as a whole is going towards... C2PA, france hacking itself into citizen phones, the UK anti encryption law, EU's chat control, etc. Im also sick of and hate the "you will own nothing and be happy" mentality that corpos try to push. I dont wanna know how the world will look like in 5-10 years.

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[–] lohrun@fediverse.boo 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve had a couple pieces of software revoke my lifetime licenses when they switched to fully subscription (even though they swore lifetime license holders would be grandfathered). I get needing to make money to pay your software engineers to keep pushing out updates but man I hate this subscription hell we live in now

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Software engineers have always needed to be paid, and companies got along just fine without subscription services. Bill Gates was the richest man in the world for the majority of my lifetime without a subscription service. The greed these days is immeasurable and needs to stop. It's ruining everything! I just noticed today that they're using the information band of the HD radio waves to push text ads to the car stereo while songs are playing now, instead of delivering song info like they said they'd do when they captured those public frequencies.