And when you make hyperbolic comparisons between people who actually make malware that actively destroys people data or is used for identity theft etc and a company advertising it’s own products within it’s own product, I think that makes you a bad faith actor.
Do I think either of the things you listed are good? Absolutely not, I only still use Windows because I’m technical enough to disable most everything I find objectionable and that level of effort is less than making Linux work for me as a daily driver. But this is like when the Linux nerds started calling Ubuntu spyware. If you accept a definition so broad most companies fall into it it becomes useless and so bereft of nuance it actively damages the efforts of those who want change for the better.
“It’s not spyware if the spying isn’t criminally used” is one school of thought, I suppose.
Frankly I agree with the other individual that spying for reasons legal or otherwise constitutes spying enough to say the ware that does it fits the description of spyware. Idgaf if it was only spying on me in order to give me free ice cream and it just wants my favorite flavor, that is still intrusive and I don’t like it. If they want to know something they can ask and if I want to tell them I will.
And when you make hyperbolic comparisons between people who actually make malware that actively destroys people data or is used for identity theft etc and a company advertising it’s own products within it’s own product, I think that makes you a bad faith actor.
Do I think either of the things you listed are good? Absolutely not, I only still use Windows because I’m technical enough to disable most everything I find objectionable and that level of effort is less than making Linux work for me as a daily driver. But this is like when the Linux nerds started calling Ubuntu spyware. If you accept a definition so broad most companies fall into it it becomes useless and so bereft of nuance it actively damages the efforts of those who want change for the better.
“It’s not spyware if the spying isn’t criminally used” is one school of thought, I suppose.
Frankly I agree with the other individual that spying for reasons legal or otherwise constitutes spying enough to say the ware that does it fits the description of spyware. Idgaf if it was only spying on me in order to give me free ice cream and it just wants my favorite flavor, that is still intrusive and I don’t like it. If they want to know something they can ask and if I want to tell them I will.