The fuck has anything in this thread had to do with bigotry? Bigotry against what? Software? Hockey?

Or do you just call everything that offends you ‘bigotry’?

Sigh, okay, I’ll try it again.

Like I do every time there’s a huge update. Will this time be different? I hate Adobe, but the Gimp has yet to live up to its promise to replace it. I’d love to never give Adobe another cent, but we’ll see.

Again, I meant for profit companies, like Nintendo.

Volunteer led orgs are different. Particularly those run by socialists.

e: most volunteer/socialist orgs don’t have ‘customers’.

I wasn’t justifying it. Perhaps that came across the wrong way.

They’re selling shit they never asked their users for and that’s bullshit, and should be illegal. Especially with children’s data.

My point was they’re doing it.

I’ve been in software design and development for decades. Sorry, but you are wrong.

The reason these companies are so profitable is because they sell your data.

Whales are fine, but that’s not their only revenue stream. People freely give up their data to them and that’s stupidly valuable. If you think these companies aren’t selling it, you’re very naive.

And to be clear, you’re saying this in response to an article pointing out they’ve been selling your data.

Yeah, I didn’t think I needed to make clear I meant with for profit companies like Nintendo.

Yeah, but many players don’t pay, especially the huge player bases of children. They can subsidise that by selling your data.

Nothing is free. All free services are using your data somehow.

If you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

In this case, it was mostly children’s data.

Oh, then the dipshit is definitely going to try it.

Yeah, IIRC when a bunch of large corporations got away with doing this in the 1980s and 90s, a lot of us just assumed it would keep happening. Some people have tried raising the alarm about this, but have been shouted down pretty consistently.

Fascists, Musk fanbois. That Venn diagram is nearly a circle.

That fact wasn’t so fun, but thx.

His obsession with X should doom him. XXX (such a weird porno obsessed idiot), X-ing himself, he’s X-valid. X him out.

Ex-relevant.

And it can all come crashing down if confidence plummets. So let’s make it plummet.

e: you may feel powerless, but you’re not. These people only have the power we give them.

I’m getting old, and this is the main lesson I’ve learned in my life.

Good. Fuck this paedophile and his weird rapey, money hoarding cult.

Uh yeah, that’s why Elon bought it.