The writing is on the wallβI suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
I love ads. I love what Microsoft and the likes are doing.
Said no one ever
I have friends that dont mind that bs, they say yeah sure its convenient to have ads that are interesting to me, how else am i gonna discover cool new things.
I dont know Frank, if you didnt think of it you probably dont need it.
How i hate capitalism
I donβt disagree, but discoverability is important. On the flipside there are so many times in FOSS world where Iβve actively looked for a tool for months, only to give up and then months later have someone randomly mention it in a thread where I discover it has existed for years.
I honestly find this incredible, but yeahβ¦ I know people who enjoy being advertised toβ¦ and who like βshoppingβ even though they start out with nothing in mind. Advertising works on them and probably those spam emails I canβt believe people click, which only perpetuates the problem. And apparently itβs worth billions to keep up the commercialization.
I hate shopping i hate it more than anything. I dont need shit. Just leave me alone, if my shirts get worn out i buy new ones. And only then. I dont throw them out cause i bought new ones and i dont need 200 of them. I buy shirts when i need them.
Guess most people arenβt like me and thats why these companies exist in the first place.
Haha. Are you telling me that we all donβt mutually love these attempts to personalize advertisements? Thereβs nothing better than knowing our personal information is being used for our benefit this way. Look at films like Blade Runner. I canβt wait to have bright fluorescent ads on every corner and open space.
Without these things, how else am I going to know which medication I should be insisting my doctor prescribe me? And clearly this insurance company with the funny ad is totally going to be there on my side when something happens. Thatβs why they made the commercial, duh. So I would absolutely be certain I can trust them to quickly and fully process a claim.
Thereβs nothing cozier than the snug embrace of consumerism, where we find a peculiar warmth, as if cocooned in a comforter spun from the very fibers of advertisingβs allure.
The scary thing is, this is legit how the marketing course I had to take taught the concepts. The whole course was from the perspective that people are too dumb or overburdened to make decisions on what products they should buy, so marketing and ads are our savior to take that oh so hard critical thinking away. I wish I was kidding, but everything about that class felt like βhow can we abuse psychology to force people to consume.β