| >Windows lol most people pay money for windows (even against their will if they want to buy a laptop for example) and still get ads and telemetry cranked to the max. What's up with that? >Android Another bad example. In a less shitty world where the majority share of the global mobile OS duopoly isn't owned by a glorified surveillance company, the support of a device would be covered by, and only by the sale price of the device. Which wouldn't be such a huge cost if Android better had engineered HAL and better standards so every device could update from the same repo tree. >if you have to pay for everything then you'll leave even more of a trail on what you did. This is my problem with Kagi[0](frequently posted here). This is more of the fault of the current global payment infrastructure than any ordinary tech company's. But if you think that the current ad infested browsing experience makes you any more private I have bad news for you. Namely fingerprintJS[1]. You might be asking what are my solution's to these problems. And my answer is that I have no idea. The only thing I know is that I'm seriously jaded with the current {mono,duo}poly ridden state of tech. [0]: https://kagi.com/ (currently throwing internal server error lol) [1]: https://fingerprintjs.com/ |
The thing is you always pay, just the currency changes. In one case you pay with your data and in another with money out of your pocket. At least with the appearance of Kagi, now people also have the second option on the table. For web search it did not exist previously and having more options is always good thing from a consumer perspective.