• orioler25@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Consumers are not the main driver of profit, speculative value is. Microsoft knows that Windows is guaranteed to be on the majority of PC’s, which means they can afford to implement hostile features that increase the speculative value on data collection and AI investment.

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      28 days ago

      This is well said. So many people don’t get that of course these companies know you hate this shit.

      They’re just trying to boost their stock value and violate your privacy harder.