• Mesophar@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, intentionally making a service or product worse to force feed obtrusive ads isn’t the only way companies can make money from it. Once they start doing that it becomes an ad platform that sometimes offers a service, rather than a service that has ads.

    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Nobody is stopping you. Go ahead and buy a Garmin.

      I’d make a 100 bet, you question the people in this thread 75%+ of them have no experience buying an atlas for $20 a year and would scoff at the price of buying new maps every year.

      We already lived through this shit when GPS became common in the early 00s and EVERYONE bitched about paying for new maps.