I would love to use FB Marketplace, but not enough to have a FB account.

Windows 10. I was happy with Windows 7, got prompted to ‘upgrade’ to Windows 10… I declined. Next morning, my PC had Windows 10 installed. I got this crazy idea that my PC belonged to me and that I would be the one to decide what OS to use. Hello Linux Mint.

OS/2

I don’t mind paying for YouTube content. I do mind their data harvesting, however. Figured out that my life isn’t diminished at all without Youtube.

“Trust me, the cheese is fine”- Mouse assigned to guard the cheese

Economic genius.

Buy Android. Use Linux. You have options.

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True. What I meant was, they are not a government entity, so they are free to make a profit.

Private company, they can do whatever they like. Also, I can purchase phones from whomever I like. This is a non-story.

To be clear, revenue does not equal profit.

I hate to burst your bubble, but Google lies.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-pay-155-million-settlements-over-location-tracking-2023-09-15/

Nextcloud has an app called Memories that works well. Also, the only internet facing ports are 80 and 443, Nextcloud has a brute force app to protect against that risk.

If you’re somewhat tech savvy, look into Nextcloud. I’m running a home server with 4 tb of storage that I share with my wife and adult kids. There are also iOs and android apps that you can use to add/delete/share files. All free and open source.

You call me an outlier, I say that I am not a sheep.

That’s sad. Too bad the entire village doesn’t know that Google is shite and that there are better options available.

I don’t use Gmail, my wife don’t use Gmail, I can’t think of any friends that use Gmail. People in my circle don’t see value in trading privacy for a “free” email account. I use fastmail, been very pleased.

People still use gmail?

But, it’s freeeeeeee!!!

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