Only to be replaced wth another data-sucking, privacy-invading, user-exploiting bunch of lying corporatists?
You may be right about fads (logos and configurations) but the late-stage capitalist model is proven - and apparently robust if it takes $1000 to make someone give it up for one year.
Did they ask how much it would take to give it up forever?
Humans are communicators. The bastards have figured out an addictive method for enabling that, that gives them almost as much control over the user as they could dream about in their wildest fantasies.
ETA - thinking some more…
Imagine if somebody had said ‘have all your phone calls for free but you have to listen to an advert at the start of each one, and we’ll record them all for us to figure out how to give you better phone calls in future’ … or ‘forget the penny black, you can send all your post for free but all envelopes must be obtained from us and will have adverts on, and the postperson will read all your letters and copy them so we can figure out how to get you better letters in future’. At the time, would anyone have agreed, or would they have decided to pay after all? The Internet has changed society’s view on all this. I mourn the disappearance of the small window when micro-payments might have become a thing. It has long since been well and truly locked shut.
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