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1. askonomm · 1790329035 · focus · HN ↗

   Any move away from the abusive big tech that exists in USA is a good move in my book. Microsoft just recently made a new patent where they will monitor you via camera and microphone to block your program/game to show you ads, and per ads viewed, you then earn credit to be able to use your program/game. It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.

   1. Thanemate · 1790330307 · focus · HN ↗

      > It is absolutely wild to me how a corporation can be so toxic and abusive to its users and still be in business.

      It's easy: The choice was made from someone else, and you just accepted it as normal. Hardware vendors shipping PC's with Windows 11, corporations who went all in to Microsoft's tooling shove Microsoft Teams down your throat because "the company uses it", and the list goes on.

      1. jacquesm · 1790332453 · focus · HN ↗

         I refuse to use 'teams', it's a pile of garbage and spyware to boot.

         1. tombert · 1790340843 · focus · HN ↗

            No argument there, but annoyingly since they killed Skype (it’s own lovely pile of garbage and spyware), the only thing my parents will use to chat online is Teams.

            I have tried to get them to use Discord or pretty much anything else, but they have been unreceptive.

            I am on Linux and so I just use the browser version, which at least sandboxes stuff for me, I think.

            1. pelotron · 1790345548 · focus · HN ↗

               My wife and father-in-law used to use Skype all the time, and when it shut down, the stars aligned as I suggested they try Signal and they both loved it.

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