Louis Rossman on the erosion of our freedoms

[exxos]

Yeah it's kinda frightening how much control companies have over our lives.

Like in the video, you don't own TV you download and they can take it back at any time. I bet they don't give a refund either.

Also the same with games, after 2 years you can't play some now. It's the trap of buying new games every year so nobody cares. It's why I mostly only play unreal 2004. I can host the server and it's direct IP. These days it's worse and when the server goes offline your screwed.

Like when Google banned my business last year.. I'm logged in with Google on a few things now. If Google ban you totally, I won't be able to log into multiple sites now. Big companies like Microsoft, eBay, PayPal all big companies screwed me over. There's just to much going on all the time to keep up. Companies have way to much control over our lives.

The argument about chrome is valid. I use brave browser and search on my tablet. I mostly used chrome on my pc but it doesn't update anymore anyway. I run adblocker as I'm not risking the adverts giving me viruses as they are not checked . I wrote a article on all that I think. I have opera and Firefox installed. I do use them but chrome is still my daily driver.

In terms of films and dvds.. I mean back in the day, at least for me. Mostly stuff recorded off the TV onto VHS. Wasn't exactly a lot of choice and i watched Ghostbusters like 100 times. I have such films on dvd now years later. But there's so much choice on films and TV now, how often would anyway watch the same stuff now ? There's no reason to keep films anymore. Watch once and onto the next. Owning or keeping stuff doesn't seem to be a thing anymore.

My girlfriend buys some TV series on dvd which we liked and want to keep. But doubt people now would really care about physical media. It just seems to be the natural progression of stuff. But it's having the knockon effects of what ownership actually means these days. Ownership just seems like short term renting to me now. The whole thing is a mess.

I'm sticking with ity my old tech until I can't anymore. My van is 23 years old. I'll run it into the ground before I consider anything new and deal with all the BS which comes with stuff these days. Problem is, governments are all for saving the environment, but people like me, who want to keep our old stuff will likely get penalised for emissions soon. Penalised for having old stuff...again...

[mrbombermillzy]

I think me and Exxos can certainly run for a while with this sort of thread. :lol:

But dont worry, I wont!

To reel it in a bit from my earlier post and focus precisely on the Tech aspects:

It seems to me that with every new feature there is often a hidden loss to something else; this is generally freedom and/or rights.

The big tech companies either package their latest spying products and market them as a 'feature', or if they cant do that, they just silently introduce it anyway - perhaps if we are lucky, declared within a multi-page terms and conditions document that must be accepted to continue using the product. Theres just no way of refusing the 'payload'.

This is railroading and I believe we discussed this sort of big corporation mafia manipulations in a M$ email blocking thread a while back.

The choice is to update or dont use at all. Not much of a choice really, as they know you are reliant on this technology and often the alternative (if there is any) is less than optimal. Sometimes they own the opposition anyway, so theres still no way out.

I was quite unaware of the Amazon book wording updates featured in the posted YT video. This is quite frightening, but Im really not surprised. In this day and age, the liberties being taken are getting bigger/more outrageous every time.