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[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

If you aren't paying, you're the product.

Microsoft Windows addendum: even when you pay, you're the product.

PS: I know this goes for more than M$. They're just the easy target here on Lems.

[–] Covenant@sh.itjust.works 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Paid*

"Payed" is a nautical term, hence the spell check failure.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago

I payed them in scallops.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They have a paid version of the Nova launcher. I am certainly not a lawyer, but it also looks like they have a pretty clear privacy policy https://novalauncher.com/privacy/

I don't currently use it, but it is a nice alternative if they aren't doing anything fishy.

i use nova for it's name and icon customization (previously used lynx)

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Nova isn't free.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What that means is Linux is spyware. So are pretty much every Foss project out there.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah. It's a dumb statement because there are plenty of paid things that make you the product and plenty of free ones that don't.

[–] jnk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Except FOSS explicitly implies the user is free (as in freedom, not 0$), and the software isn't a product or service, but a tool.

That line only applies when a non-free service or software that's supposed to be meant for profit doesn't have a clear money income. Don't compare "oh how generous is google for giving me free email and drive for no shady reasons at all" to "i host my own email and cloud using foss projects".

Also, windows is basically spyware with a bit of unoptimized OS on top and you still (should) pay for it.

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

it do be a dumb statement because it generalizes a lot but in propiertary software it msot often is true

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Great point! Maybe I need to amend my statement to not include FOSS?