Bile coding

Except that they do.

https://www.kearney.com/industry/media/article/video-content-piracy-using-the-power-of-data-and-analytics-to-capture-a-multibillion-dollar-opportunity

https://electroiq.com/stats/piracy-statistics/

https://corsearch.com/blogs/does-piracy-impact-sales-a-look-at-the-data

https://www.muso.com/blog/piracy-data-and-audience-demand-in-the-film-and-tv-industries

https://thehighcourt.co/piracy-statistics/

Piracy sends an even clearer message.

“Fuck you, I’m not playing your game”

Welcome to the fediverse, it’s full of assholes.

I block any sort of ad and tracker on everything in my house, they might be trying to show “targeted” ads but I’ll never see them and their data will always be wrong.

Fuck em.

Soulseek

Someone should teach them how to pirate.

Why would you want VPNs to be illegal?

Not with that attitude you won’t.

If I bought a tv the required internet access, I’d return it.

This is why the smart bet is to never give network access to your tv, it will only get enshittified.

Thats a hell of an understatement.

A microslop certification is not the sign of quality that they are trying to pretend it is.

I wrote off ubuntu for good 13 years ago when they let amazon advertise in the OS.

Tech in the 1980’s - 2010’s was hopeful, beneficial, and fairly consumer oriented. Tech today is mostly some sort of scheme for recurring billing while openly assisting the modern surveillance state. It’s no wonder modern tech feels icky.

no

Fuck mozilla and fuck AI

So they are going to sell themselves a license?

Duh, now do something about it.

Good