• huppakee@lemmy.world
    6 days

    You forgot the step where the os/app again asks if you want to subscribe to premium and you again tell it to remind you later, because never ask me again isn’t an option anymore.

    • Lena@gregtech.eu
      6 days

      As Louis Rossmann said, the developers have a rapist mentality. They don’t understand consent and believe they have a god-given right to your data.

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6 days

        It’s not the developers, it’s the assholes in charge that have an MBA (masters of business administration). Modern MBAs literally teach that it’s not their money it’s your money and they’re just an obstacle to it, and they apply that mentality to literally everything.

      • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip
        6 days

        Honestly, at first I thought the expression was perhaps a bit too harsh. Then the Epstein files came out and I now completely agree with the comparison

        • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 days

          Theres literally no option to say no, and if you say yes once you can never take it back.

          I understand the stakes are significantly lower and that rapists arent under the same vampire-entering-your-house rules, but its actually a very accurate and eye-opening analogy

      • stopforgettingit@lemmy.world
        6 days

        Hard disagree, its not the developers who make these ideas, they just have to build them to keep their job.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 days

      Well yea, you turned off the toggle in settings -> advanced features where as this new setting is a dropdown in user profile -> personalisation its a 100% different setting with no relation to the old one.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6 days

        Wow, these Linux users just make up problems instead of simply asking AI for the latest solution every time.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
    6 days

    Turn on my computer, boots super fast. Log in, I’m ready to compute in under a second. No AI in my face.

    Thank you Linux.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      6 days

      Embrace the penguin. Finally say goodbye to updates that make your computer worse.

      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6 days

        Yeah it’s great we have that alternative, but it’s sad AF it’s pushed down our throats while no one is asking for it. Whether we have an alternative or not, it’s just fucking disgusting something that was great and built for the users now changed to fuck the users for corporate gain. This goes for games, movies and series, cars, all sorts of machines like fridges and washing machines, software, almost the entire internet, basically most things you own, or used to own but now are cloud based and now prescription based. It’s a total dystopia where corporations take control exponentially and start to push people into slavery. Nice to have Linux but how long until Google forces DRM’s on websites so you’re only able to use chrome to open sites on their servers. And what about PC hardware that’s starting to implement AI into it. And that’s just an example. How many options we have for browsing, I mean, we have Firefox right? But they are turning more evil too now. The evil corps are closing the gaps on independancy, privacy, diversity and ownership.

        • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
          6 days

          Yeah it’s great we have that alternative, but it’s sad AF it’s pushed down our throats while no one is asking for it.

          If you want it to stop being pushed down your throat, you’ve got to stop sucking corpo dick.

          • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            6 days

            How though? Even our public transportation is a big corpo stealing our data, raising prices and adding shitty features no one asks for. Same with cars and e-bikes. “Then get a older car” you say, but they aren’t allowed in my city anymore due to pollution. So I should just always walk? Same shit with my social housing corp, energy supplier, internet provider, phone provider. And even the grocery stores, they are all gettinf fucked up out of corporate greed. So should I go live out on the streets then, close my bank account, live on food out of trash cans? Yeah, that’s going to be awesome, no more sucking corporate dick. Hoping the salvation army won’t turn evil too.

            Or do you think that by installing Linux on your PC means you’re free of sucking any corporate dick? I’m a Linux fan but I’m not ignorant.

              • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                6 days

                Well there ya go.

                Yeah, it’s a Christian institute with strict Christian values. There’s one in the street behind my house. But at least they are helping the homeless. Although not equally. But it’s more than most do.

                • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
                  5 days

                  They’ve been known to let trans people freeze to death on the steps of their shelters. The Starvation Army is beyond fucked, and has been for a looong time.

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      6 days

      How is it 1984 IRL?

      The ruling powers in 1984 are sadistically oppressing the people. With seemingly no other point to it, than oppressing and tormenting on a mass scale. The whole point of the surveillance in 1984 was to oppress, the surveillance was secondary. I’m not saying that we can’t draw parallels, and some can probably be made without too much mental gymnastics, but it’s not like 1984 1:1, not even close.

      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6 days

        Making people not own anything anymore while stealing all their data and forcing shit into them while making them pay monthly fees which increase constantly to bleed people dry, is not sadistic and oppressing? While at the same time taking control of governments by paying off corrupt politicians to change rules to make more money at the cost of safely, environment and freedom of people? Maybe the only difference is that the reason to torment and oppress is to gain money and power. But is that different to 1984? It’s how regimes maintain power. Make the people weak enough so they can’t do anything against you but make them not weak enough to work for you.

      • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
        5 days

        – They posted from their smartphone/laptop that has a camera pointed directly at their face

      • pilferjinx@piefed.socialEnglish
        6 days

        You bet your ass it’ll be getting relatively sadistic if our governments become full dictatorships. They just end up being control systems for the sake of control, losing its foundational origins. There are plenty of countries that disappear dissenters and subject its people to 1984 style torture/re-eduction camps.

      • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6 days

        Do you mean AI companies are not using AI mostly to oppress other forms of thinking?

        (Disclaimer: I do not share this opinion)

        • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
          5 days

          I mean, what do you call Grok attempting to rewrite Wikipedia to make it more conservative?

        • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
          6 days

          Do you mean AI companies are not using AI mostly to oppress other forms of thinking?

          I think it’s the goal for some companies. I’m not sure that it is happening yet. Not for a lack of trying. I mean grok is supposed to be very friendly to Musk agenda of the day, but appear to be uncontrollable in regards to facts vs opinion.

          (Disclaimer: I do not share this opinion)

          I don’t think I do either, IDK. It’s not a hill I’m about to die on, I’m hardly even prepared to play yahtzee for this hill.

          What I opined to was the invocation of 1984 as soon as something can be used as surveillance. Because people who do this have either never read the book, or they’ve read the cover when visiting someone, who just happened to have a copy laying casually on their coffee table.

          My problem is that spying isn’t the main purpose of the surveillance in 1984. The main purpose is to ensure people know they’re under surveillance, and make sure that nobody not feel oppressed. And while I dislike AI in everything, I don’t believe that AI was introduced to hurt me or most other people.

          • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
            5 days

            And while I dislike AI in everything, I don’t believe that AI was introduced to hurt me or most other people.

            Then why are they losing money on it while it pollutes inordinately and denies people access to information? AI is basically signal jamming the entire internet, at great expense, with no actual path to profitability. They’re certainly not doing it to make money, because as it stands they’re all losing money right now. Oppression, in the form of information denial, and regulation of communication, appears to be the primary goal.

  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world
    6 days

    Click link to website

    Remove popup for their shitty app

    Deny cookies

    Halfway through paywall pops up

    Never visit website again

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      6 days

      I also add them to my pihole blocklist if I’m not feeling lazy

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      6 days

      I hate the ads and tracking too, but I don’t think “not visiting them ever again” is a real punishment for them if you bypass all the things that make your visit profitable to them.

      “Oh no - all these users who don’t make us any money refuse to tax our servers with their bandwidth. The horror!”

      • late_pessimistic@slrpnk.netEnglish
        6 days

        They never claimed they do it to punish website owners though. I see it as them having found the experience annoying enough to opt out from using the service altogether

  • justsomeguy@lemmy.world
    6 days

    Called the vet clinic with an emergency the other day. Instead of a human there was an AI calling itself “Emma” on the phone. It asked me about the symptoms so I was listing them. It replied “Is your cat puking too or only october?”

    FUCK OUT OF MY FACE

    • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 days

      Ah, you’re likely referring to The whiney asshats that gave up all effort of making executive decisions in their life… but they aren’t the ones complaining. They don’t see someone taking away all their agency and advocacy as a problem as they errode into laziness and impatience.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
    6 days

    If you wait until you accidentally use the AI feature before turning it back off, they get to report a higher percentage of user engagement.

    • huppakee@lemmy.world
      6 days

      “Chat, what’s the easiest way to remove your presence from my experience?”

  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6 days

    Good news, I’m using AI to make an AI driven piece of software to turn off all the AI for you!!!

  • ddplf@szmer.info
    5 days

    The people actually making use of all of these special AI features must be so very efficient at doing nothing in particular