540
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
540 points (97.4% liked)
Technology
35125 readers
445 users here now
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.
Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
All the big corps get a free pass because of money and power, and this is why free market doesn't work.
Democracy doesn't work either since media is owned by big corps as well. People can only know what they are allowed to know. If you are rich and powerful, you manipulate the media and you manipulate entire elections and decisions.
After a while, you actually see how all these systems are manipulated dally.
Our democracy in the US has lasted ~250 years despite all the nonsense from the rich and powerful. So I think enough of the voting public pays attention to keep things afloat. It has been a slow march downward imo, but nothing unrecoverable.
I can't speak for the rest of the world, but the US seems to go in cycles. That's how democracies seem to end up working, the public gets annoyed enough and demands change, so things get better for a time and then slowly get worse. Then the cycle repeats. It's basically two steps forward, one step back, repeat ad infinitum. Just think, 100 years ago we got women's suffrage, and now that's a given and we're fighting over abortion and equal pay. 100 years before that we were fighting over literal slavery. Some years down the road, we'll likely take those as a given and be fighting over something else.
Democracy works, it's just a messy process that can take a while. But it has worked so far pretty well.