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1. LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 22:49:12 JST LS
   > https://www.osnews.com/story/136829/the-end-of-the-googleverse
   > can't spend 25 bucks a month on his job
   > "omg why is big tech such a hellscape???"
   • matrix07012 :thotpatrol: :cunnyEmpire: repeated this.
   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 22:55:42 JST feld

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     $25 a month? that's like 5 lattes
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   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:02:18 JST feld

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     No but honestly, why does everyone think the entire internet and every tool needs to be 100% free?
     
     What the fuck is wrong with people?
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:02:18 JST LS

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     • feld
     @feld I'm especially annoyed because Thom has run osnews for decades now complaining about the evils of surveillance capitalism and then when he gets the exact product he wanted he says it's too expensive because of his job.
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:07:46 JST LS

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     • 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified:
     @tk @feld pelmora isn't a business
   • 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:07:47 JST 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified:

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     • feld
     @feld @lain Are you going to start charging for Pleroma? :blobfoxthink:
   • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:09:06 JST iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:

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     • 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified:
     @tk @feld @lain pleroma enterprise edition
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   • 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:09:57 JST 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified:

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     • feld
     @icedquinn @feld @lain That acronym. :blobfoxowo:
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   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:13:46 JST feld

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     This same brainworm :brainworms: is what makes people point at Mac users and say they're being taken advantage of because "all of the paid apps" vs Linux.
     
     Most of the apps I've purchased -- which are incredibly high quality, and get updates to support every new MacOS release -- are developed by independent developers. These are regular people who love what they do, made something useful, and continuing to maintain and improve the software supports them and their families. I rarely have to buy something that comes from a giant global mega corp.
     
     Is that evil because it's not open source?
     
     When was the last time you gave $100 to another open source developer? Ever?
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   • grillchen (grillchen@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:20:18 JST grillchen

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     @lain @feld mhhh im torn. i prefer foss whenever possible.
     
     i want people get paid.
     
     
     
     what i love: software i can pay for and give me actual freedom. like being open source (not free since it is paid) and no DRM foo.
     
     foss software being paid is harder to achieve and often with support subscription models or subventioned by other foo the company does
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:20:18 JST LS

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     • feld
     @grillchen @feld I've seen a few Foss apps get some good money by just putting their software on the stores, too, in the same version that you can get for free.
   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 23:23:14 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     @lain >I wish Google would just focus their search efforts on making a good search engine, sprinkled with some ads in the sidebar or occasionally interspersed inside the results, clearly marked.
     
     "I want small ads that I can easily ignore and never click on to pay for massive software engineering projects, this shouldn't be too hard, right?"
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   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 00:10:08 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     @lain Same writer: https://www.osnews.com/story/135373/google-gives-adblockers-in-chrome-another-year-as-it-postpones-manifest-v3/
     
     > Chrome is an advertising delivery platform first and foremost, and anyone with even a hint of foresight and a disdain for ads should’ve switched to Firefox years ago. At this point, using Chrome is self-inflicted.
     
     https://www.osnews.com/story/130390/adblocking-how-about-nah/
     
     > EME is the first crack in the wall that protected browsers from those who would thwart adversarial operability and take “how about nah?” off the table, leaving us with the kind of take-it-or-leave-it Web that the marketing industry has been striving for since the first pop-up ad.
     
     https://www.osnews.com/story/26862/google-removes-adblockers-from-play-store/
     
     > As for adblocking in and of itself – I never had much of a problem with it, despite OSNews running (a very limited set of) ads. In the end, your computer is your own, and you, and only you, get to decide what gets stored in your RAM or what gets displayed on your screen. If you do not want ads on your computer, then you have the right to block them client-side.
     
     https://www.osnews.com/story/30762/the-effect-of-ad-blocking-on-user-engagement-with-the-web/
     
     > I, too, use ad blockers on all my browsers and devices – and I can safely say that if ad blockers didn’t exist, I’d be spending a lot less time reading websites online. Note that this study was performed by Mozilla employees.
     
     
     I could keep going...
     
     So... Other, dumber people should watch ads and make his services free. Not him though.
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   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 01:42:38 JST LS

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     • RyokoPilled
     @RyokoPilled he is, may allah forgive me, a europ*an
   • RyokoPilled (ryokopilled@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 01:42:39 JST RyokoPilled

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     @lain "it sure sucks googles results are bad but I'm not going to mention the reason they suck is the massive amounts of censorship" lol did a bugman write this?