This app requires access to your contacts

https://lemmy.zip/post/28090895

This app requires access to your contacts - Lemmy.zip

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/28090390 [https://lemmy.zip/post/28090390] > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/35018512 [https://lemmy.ca/post/35018512] > > > Far more than c/mildlyinfuriating

Funny how this is supposed to be absurd - upside down duck, cake, “bizarro” and all - but it’s actually pretty accurate. So many products out there that require you to download their shitty spyware in order to do the things they are supposed to do.
If you buy garbage products you get garbage products. That’s on you.

Yep. Until you can’t find non-garbage products anymore because 95% of everyone else is dumb enough to fall for it.

I think there’s a reasonable case to be made against buyer beware here, we need to ban this shit.

For example, try buying a television in a retail store that doesn’t have “smart” features at all, just inputs, outputs, and a digital tuner.
I wish. I really do. I want it so badly. My TV upgrades over the past 4 years have all been thrift store finds because I refuse to be forced to buy a device that WILL be obsolete one day.
From what I’ve heard, the move is to substitute in a monitor.
but 30"+ monitors are extremely expensive :(
That’s what you get for not paying by watchind ads
I know your comment is probably /s but even the expensive $1k+ TVs have “smart” features and ads now.