alt Hacker NewsYes, which is why I use paid-for OSes and browsers, instead of free ones like Linux or Firefox. I don't want to be the product.
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coldtea • yesterday at 1:53 PM
With Linux you can control up to the detail any auto-update, and any update in general, all the way to being able to inspect the code.
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z3t4 • yesterday at 3:45 PM
Why is nobody building a paid for browser with built in search engine and LLM assistant? Should probably make it open source for transparency. And before anyone says you would build/compile it yourself if it was open source, those ppl are already running their self compiled tools and are not the target market.
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Narishma • yesterday at 4:52 PM
You are still the product with commercial OSes. Paying doesn't stop them from shoving ads and telemetry wherever they can.
I think with Windows you probably are the customer and the product