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  1. Wild how stuff turned to shit. You spent thousands of dollars/euros on a television, just to be sold out to advertisers. They literally say that they "own" you. No exceptions, including Apple with their ads now.

    Rokus makes 85% of their income from advertising rather than hardware.

    If you don’t paymfor the product, you are the product is pretty outdated. You pay but still remain the product.
    #entshittification

    youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

  2. @EricAlper Yes, this is old.

    However:

    It did not have in-app purchases.

    Oh, it didn't come with #ads.

    It had no direct or indirect #expiration date where it stopped working altogether.

    It continued working even when its original #manufacturer went out of business.

    You really owned it.

    It had no dependency to the #cloud.

    There were no features that stopped working because of some remote marketing guy decided so.

    It didn't contain call-back routines to the manufacturer.

    It did not listen to its surrounding and generate #voiceprofiles for all people you meet.

    It didn't spy on its buyers and sell those voice profiles an other very personal #data to #brokers which resell to #insurances, #advertisement companies and worse.

    You could actually go to any electronic shop to get it repaired.

    It was not overpriced.

    It just played #music. It was perfect.

    #capitalism #surveillance #entshittification #hifi #hardware #products