Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.

  • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2711·
    6 months ago

    If you aren’t paying, you’re the product.

    Microsoft Windows addendum: even when you pay, you’re the product.

    PS: I know this goes for more than M$. They’re just the easy target here on Lems.

    • normalexit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      6 months ago

      They have a paid version of the Nova launcher. I am certainly not a lawyer, but it also looks like they have a pretty clear privacy policy https://novalauncher.com/privacy/

      I don’t currently use it, but it is a nice alternative if they aren’t doing anything fishy.

    • herrvogel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      84·
      6 months ago

      What that means is Linux is spyware. So are pretty much every Foss project out there.

      • JackbyDevEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        Yeah. It’s a dumb statement because there are plenty of paid things that make you the product and plenty of free ones that don’t.

      • jnk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        Except FOSS explicitly implies the user is free (as in freedom, not 0$), and the software isn’t a product or service, but a tool.

        That line only applies when a non-free service or software that’s supposed to be meant for profit doesn’t have a clear money income. Don’t compare “oh how generous is google for giving me free email and drive for no shady reasons at all” to “i host my own email and cloud using foss projects”.

        Also, windows is basically spyware with a bit of unoptimized OS on top and you still (should) pay for it.

      • olutukko@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        6 months ago

        it do be a dumb statement because it generalizes a lot but in propiertary software it msot often is true