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by simonh
2878 days ago
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Stopping advertising based business models would not make a $500 computer suddenly cost $5,000. Also Windows is not ‘effectively free’, it’s just you don’t usually pay for it separately. Stopping invasive user tracking would make internet advertising less effective, sure, but it wouldn’t prevent it completely. Ad Words doesn’t fundamentally depend on user tracking to associate search terms to advertisements for example. |
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https://www.howtogeek.com/163303/how-computer-manufacturers-...
The cost of a pre-installed license is cost neutral in most cases due to the crapware they add.
My overarching point is that 99% of consumers are cost-conscious. They look at the price in paper and rarely weigh anything else, especially a fuzzy notion of privacy. We are the 1% and we should be mindful of the 99%