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No, but, but, think of the shareholders! Nobody ever thinks about the shareholders! :(((

That makes the assumption you want to use your phone number at all

Can’t use Signal without a phone number.

There already are. People all over LinkedIn are changing their titles to “AI Code Cleanup Specialist”.

Then talk to your government, get them to make the app, not just the website. Go you!

I almost forgot this is Technology, where the most insane tech views are the norm…

Aaaand we circle back to THIS.

Nearly every weather app that exists is repackaging data from an official, tax funded source

The weather source. Not the application source. A dude needs to sit down and write that part.

You’re desperately trying to spit on me, but forgetting we’re both behind computer screens. Get sober. Don’t spit on your computer.

No, by doing something else with his life because developing an app is not an all-encompassing behavior.

Buddy, are you suggesting that software developers should “do something else to earn money”?

Are you high right now?

No, I’m just not a useful idiot going to bat for people making money off of me.

Go ahead. Quote the bit where anyone in this thread is batting for anybody.

I, personally, have made significantly more complicated apps than what you’re defending

I’m becoming fairly certain that you are high. What exactly am I defending…?

If we can do it, why can’t this scumbag?

We can’t have a discussion if you don’t understand some simple facts of life. Such as: “people need to eat”, or “eating costs money”, or “not everybody has the privilege of being a software developer as a side-gig”, or “not everybody wants or can be a farmer”.

Please, tell me more about how ignorant and innocent you are. It’s cute and predictable.

Get sober, then read what you wrote again.

Yeah, that’s true. Often people will take the money from users AND from selling data. But you can (usually) verify if that’s the case by checking the app’s permissions required.

The point stands, however: you either pay for the software with money, or with data - with the only exception being the unusually rare FOSS project here and there, which either lives in relative obscurity or grows to become large enough for the creators to either start requiring money, or just fold under the load…

He can eat without selling people’s data.

Yes. By making your app paid, not free. 90% of Apple Store/Google Play store users don’t want to pay for apps with their money.

This isn’t about putting food on the table and you’re a dipshit if you believe otherwise.

You’re childishly naive if you think it’s malice 100% of the way top to bottom.

I guess calling it “Project Barad Dur” was a bit too on the nose after they named themselves Palantir.

Show me one weather app that’s state-sponsored (therefore: paid by taxes) that sells data to boost income.

If you want the weather info sponsored by your taxes, use the browser.

If you want a convenient widget, someone needs to make it, and the developer who made that widget needs to eat too.

You can either buy an app or pay with your data.

Well, it’s good to the management that sells the company. They get paid.

“Capitalism managed to accidentally not choke an innovative project in the crib again! Yet another win for capitalism!!”

They’re aiming for “something the viewer can achieve themselves”.

99% of ex-Windows users won’t be going for Arch, Debian or Fedora. It’s supposed to be easy to get in, difficult to screw up.

Even the screenshots and audio recordings only have anonymous tracking IDs

Nothing like that exists, mate.

The Recall thing is local-only, nothing is being tracked or sent to MS. How do we know that? Because there’s about a billion security engineers poring over every single bit of data sent out by Windows since the introduction of Recall.

They know how important privacy is to their users and that it would be crazy to use the automatic update system for anything other than installing security patches

Hmm?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Microsoft provides software or hardware that facilitates shooting anything.

Isn’t that the whole point of Windows 11? Mass surveillance of your userbase? 🤔

No.

Anonymous telemetry that tells you what percent of users clicked a button is not surveillance.