One company caving about one thing doesn’t cancel out the overall trend of enshittification and subscription bullshit. Things are getting worse on the whole because voting with our wallets just doesn’t work well enough to beat back all the corporations trying to take advantage of us.
If there was even a chance a boycott would be feasible, they wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing. The only way to force change is to force it. Voting with your wallet is bullshit and won’t work against an oligopoly.
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I don’t know why you went with something that individual internet neckbeards do.
A self-replicating swarm of fighter drones would be far more devastating than almost all of the weapons we see in the Star Trek universe. You could send a few off to some random uninhabited solar system to suck it dry and come back with literally trillions of small unmanned drones capable of overwhelming entire civilizations with ease. Of course, there’s always the threat of them going rogue or being taken over by someone else.
Experience-based vendor lock-in while getting bait’n’switched with increasing amounts of ads is not a consumer choice. To assert otherwise is extremely ignorant of the power dynamics between individual consumers and the duopoly that we have in the phone market.
I do block ads on the DNS level. You’re probably running a modded version of the client without realizing it.
At this point, the play store has such a monopoly that they can do whatever the fuck they want. That’s why there are so many ads.
In my opinion, software that can be considered required for hardware that you’ve paid for to work (OS/system level apps) should not be allowed to have ads by law. It’s also a double infraction when they bait’n’switch you by slowly rolling out more and more ads on a phone you already bought.