Microsoft learned the right lesson, everyone has internet! \s

I rate this meme accurate. Also, why are countries more free on the internet than america?

-concerned american

I’m a little biased right now.

I plan to pay for all my contents in the hope I get more of what I like, but I’m pirating them because with pirated content I don’t have to worry about DRM

This made me chuckle.

I’ve been just recommending Lemmy out there as the new internet, which us what this feels like to me, IS like the old internet again!

Americans too wrapped up in shiny AI hype

-signed American citizen

I’m convinced that this AI stuff is just a shiny toy being dangled in front of average people.

And its scary how well it works. Until I read about it from internet users, then the big flaws get revealed

This is unfortunate, I like my privacy, I’ve also been hearing about server side ads. On grayjay, I haven’t needed to sign in.

Not gonna lie, I love listening to the smart comments, I’m not THAT smart. And thanks to reddit being shit (comments suck) I refound lemmy

I’m on a different instance, I think that let’s me see all of the Internet’s sides.

They took down the fucking don’t be evil sign! Google used to be a good company but I don’t trust their actions. I’ve only found out about the spyware level chrome browser, not to mention that Google has been coloring my searches on the internet.

But what do I expect from a ADVERTISING company first and for most?

Don’t authenticate to a search engine.

Haha, yes I’m an eggplant, thank you BTW, I enjoy seeing you posting! I think you were a reason I stick around lemmy.

My lifespan is shorter than 30 years so yes.

My last straw was the privacy and lack of control.

I didn’t like software being released by Microsoft telling me my choices were bad or unoptimal, I like my software, I made my choices from listening to others and forming my own opinion. I had a shift in thinking recently, I wanted to start selecting my software based on my values rather than just choosing whatever works.

I do lean to having privacy and freedom to do whatever with my tools as “good” things

Why not go further and suck all the water down running these massive data centers making AI?

Yeah, its sad that it’ll take something happening to the common person to take Privacy seriously.

If we could tackle the idea that Privacy matters and get more common folk aware of what they are losing, then I would like that very much.

Its a selling point for me privacy wise no? The program Doesn’t need the access to everything like my graphene phone.