HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing - eviltoast

HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    How is it better? It’s still data mining.

    People love to love apple but they’re just a company they don’t care about you.

    I don’t understand why they get special privileges, I don’t understand why people vehemently argue in their favor of them when they’re clearly just as bad as Google. They’re just better at making you think otherwise.

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      Because Apple’s core business is selling their stuff to you. Google’s core business is selling you to other companies.

      Google’s consumer software and products literally serve no other business purpose than surveillance to figure out how to turn you into a more lucrative advertising target.

      Apple has realized they can capitalize on this by making privacy a core selling feature for their stuff — one that Google cannot challenge them on as privacy is directly at odds with the core premise of their entire business.

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      1 year ago

      I use a Samsung because I dont give a fuck about my data personally. Its better because I expect companies that have me as a paying customer to use my data internally, its the onselling to literally anyone with enough money that bothers me.