this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
446 points (93.9% liked)

Technology

59381 readers
3977 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
446
People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? (www.bbc.com)
submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
269 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People want these to avoid watching ads and being a guinea pig for their own money.

If something like Maemo was a thing today, would be different.

[โ€“] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 5 months ago

So maybe they could just...not use apps that bombard them with ads? How hard is that?