this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
850 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

59201 readers
2831 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Somewhere along the line, maybe the early to mid 2000's they stopped making products "for" the end-user and flipped it around so the end-user (their data) is now the product, and the customers are governments, corporations, and share holders.

[–] omarfw@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Because those shareholders (billionaires) and corporations drained the consumers of all of their money and now they're the most profitable demographic to market to.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

shareholders

If 0.000…01% shareholders count:

Guessing a lotta us have a few bucks in index funds… suppose that ain’t cool, gotta find a principled fund.

The most principled funds must only invest in like three companies cuz every corp has some problem.