No Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, or apple?
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What did Spotify do to deserve a spot?
Oh boy, a whole lot. I was compiling a list, but it turns out that Spotifys shady business practices has a whole wikipedia page. Not sure if it's included in there but Joe Rogan. Just everything about the Joe Rogan deal. As well as their ties to the military industrial complex. It's less "what have they done?" and more "what haven't they done?"
What music platforms would you suggest as an alternative? Apple Music can’t be that much better, can it?
Tidal is pretty popular, they at least pay artists more. There's a couple other recommendations I've seen floating around on lemmy but the names are escaping me atm. I don't think there's any services out there with clean hands tbh, but limiting the harm from your consumption is better than doing nothing about it
Your comment actually inspired me to try the free trial for Tidal and I really like it. In the future I might switch over to it from Spotify, at least they seem to pay artists better.
Destroying artist's livelihoods, for one thing. Shady business practices, for the other.
I guess Facebook is bad for it's... Well general shittiness... But they did invent react which a lot of the good parts of the internet use
And llama. They're making it so that small companies can compete in the AI game
Could all be summed up in the last one: capitalism
Well the camera one doesnt technically have to be capitalism.
None of them have to.
You're right, not necessarily
All of "triple AAA" Gaming, i.e.: Activision-Blizzard, Ubisoft, Microsoft (classic), ...
Oracle, IIRC they are/were the biggest data gatherer.
Can't say I understand the point you're trying to make. Are you saying these things should not be hated?
Post in the comments additions to my list; I wanted to add more but I missed some.
Unity does not qualify as "internet thing"
The advertising-thing always baffles me. Are you willing to pay for each and every service you just use completely for free? If not, you shouldn't see advertising as a "scourge".
I don't have much of an issue with advertising in itself
However
Online advertising nowadays is extremely obnoxious and annoying, and serves to track you, too. Add the fact that ads are free real estate for malicious actors to do whatever, and I think you can agree that they are a bigger problem than they should be.
I genuinely wouldn't mind ads if they were unobtrusive and not tracking me, but that's not the reality.
Don't forget about malvertising, that's probably a more imminent danger. If Google and other ad companies don't give enough of a shit about user to actually filter out malware ads, why should I give enough of a shit about their revenue to not use uBO?
Yes
A better question is how you're so comfortable with every place you look containing ads
Bring back the old Soviet Internet, before it was privatised!
You're forgetting the guy with the second biggest mug in the world.
Pretty much any mainstream social media imo
Got so many ad blockers about the only time I see ads is when I accidentally look at a billboard