How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse

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How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse - Lemmy.World

I have been using Logitech peripherals for years. Logitech gear always just worked. Now they demand internet accounts to use the features of the keyboard and mouse that I purchased. WTF? Not only that, have to use wide-open-to-snooping Chrome to adjust the settings. You cannot adjust/use your mouse and keyboard if you just use Firefox. This only makes sense if they are planning (or are already) tracking my every move online to sell to advertisers or spooks. What are the good options? Also, if anybody sees how these changes could be benign, please let me know.

Logitech devices do not need such drivers under Linux…

Really?

My Logitech mice won’t work, at all under Linux unless I go find a third party software to make them work.

While under Windows they just work, even without the Logitech config software.

Then what you bought is not a mouse, it’s a proprietary peripheral that emulates a mouse when you install its propretary drivers.
Never encountered a Logitech mouse or keyboard that didn’t work out of the box with Linux.
I have had to set them up on a windows box and then move them over.