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Nakotadinzeo t1_ixuqqh8 wrote

Reply to comment by MikeLinPA in The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser by dapperlemon

Your palm pilot didn't need to communicate with EAs servers to validate your DRM before starting Tetris...

Your tip calculator didn need to send a report to crashalitics every time it opened successfully.

I got a Knox based firewall, and holy crap does a lot of shit reach out to a server for useless unneeded reasons.

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MikeLinPA t1_ixvt3r2 wrote

Yeah, this! Data mining and DRM not only invade our privacy, they waste our bandwidth and cycle time. We have to wait our turn to use our own devices!

Remember, we're not men, we're wallets, put here solely to be exploited for profit. If we momentarily forget out place, our devices will report us!

*No, I'm not actually a conspiracy nut, but the US very often put profits above human well-being. For example, take the phrase, 'pre-existing condition". In any other developed nation, it never existed. It was simply your medical history. Profit is a major evil in our society.

Sorry for the rant. Enjoy your weekend.

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