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This is Depressing (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone else feel as if it's over when it comes to really owning your own things?

As of now:

You don't have the option of having a phone with decent specs and replaceable parts
You have to have really good knowledge in tech to have private services that are on par with what the big companies offer
You have to put up with annoying compatibility issues if you install a custom ROM on your android phone
You cannot escape apps preventing you from using them if you root your device
Cars are becoming SaaS bullcrap
Everything is going for a subscription model in general

And now Google is attempting to implement DRM on websites. If that goes through, Firefox is going to be relegated to privacy conscious websites (there aren't many of those). At this point, why even bother? Why do I go to great lengths at protecting my privacy if it means that I can't use most services I want?

It sucks because the obvious solution is for people to move away from these bullshit companies and show that they actually care about their privacy. Even more important is to actually PAY for services they like instead of relying on free stuff. I'm not optimistic not just because the non privacy conscious side is lazy, but because my side is greedy. I mean one of the most popular communities on lemmy is "piracy" which makes it all the more reasonable for companies not to listen to privacy conscious people.

I wouldn't say that this is the endgame but in this trajectory, privacy is gone before 2030.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here where I live is very hard privacy, school apps and governments are very intrusive and doesnt care for linux, custom roms for my model is so rare and to unlock oem is everything manual and mostly local sites are paywalled or useless, really thinking stop using html protocol lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Graphene OS does a great job of protecting your privacy. Although, since it doesn't rely on google services, unless you want to sandbox some, most of the time you don't get push notifications. Which isn't that bad.

And in terms of actually owning things, instead of relying on subscriptions services, that's what Web3/NFTs are trying to solve. Despite the fact that everyone loves to shit on them, and they're in their infancy, their utility far exceeds overpriced pictures. Right now you have to indefinitely subscribe to Netflix or Prime to access movies and shows you've already paid for, but if you bought an NFT of the movie, no one could gate keep that media from you. Musicians could cheaply disburse their songs to people and not be price gouged by Spotify, and any digital asset you bought would truly be yours, including video games and their skins/weapons/pets/etc, with the ability to resell those as you saw fit. As well, there would be an incentive for the studios that create this media to make them into NFTs, because unlike with physical copies, they would make a cut of every single sale that happens. So, they'd make money on the initial sale, and then a cut of you selling to a friend, your friend selling to someone else, ect.

What I think it, ultimately, comes down to is people getting, too, complacent and just accepting any ToS that's thrown in their face, because they can be dozens of pages long, and we just want to use the service right then and there.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If it's a physical object, how can you turn one into 1000? How can it be both the alignment of magnetic domains on a spinning disk, or an area containing more or less electrons than normal, or a sequence of letters printed on a page? It can even be stored in meat if you memorize a sequence, or separated in space and time then reunited

Data isn't a physical object, it's any pattern that can be decoded to result in the same useful sequence. It's information.

At best, you can call it a property of a physical object

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