[choeger]

Clearly, there is a thing missing here: Regulations. If you have strong regulations on how you can make money, you cannot sustainably have biz antagonize user. So in that case biz just becomes a filter for users that actually are willing (and able) to fund your software. That's a good thing.

Obviously, our regulations aren't perfect or even good enough yet. See DRM. See spyware TVs. See "who actually gets to control your device?". But still...

[jjk166]

> Regulations. If you have strong regulations on how you can make money, you cannot sustainably have biz antagonize user.

If that's what the regulators are optimizing for.

[codemog]

Stupid regulations are why we have an idiotic cookie banner on many websites.

[tmtvl]

No, that's malicious compliance. If the owners of those websites would just stop ignoring visitors' right to privacy they wouldn't be showing those banners (yes, I know the website of the EU also has such a banner, lazy devs are lazy).