I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

  • rubikcuberEnglish
    197•9 months ago

    If you’re not paying you are the product. If you ARE paying you are STILL the product. This is how big tech works.

    • sebinspaceEnglish
      46•9 months ago

      Basically every computer hardware manufacturer is collecting telemetry and sending it home. If you’re using MacOS or Windows, your OS is doing it aswell

      • @essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22•9 months ago

        Or Android, or iOS, or a Chromebook, or whatever other OS you’re using next year, if it isn’t some sort of Linux/UNIX system… and even some of those might not be great, but at least you can find out.

        • sebinspaceEnglish
          10•9 months ago

          I mean… Android and ChromeOS are Linux underneath. MacOS is… related to Unix. Hang on, I need to look up that lineage…

          Also Lineage.

          Edit: MacOS used/uses the Mach kernel, and uses code “derived from BSD”, vague as Wikipedia is. That could mean it’s a whole copy-paste or that it just borrows ideas from BSD.

          • panCatEEnglish
            5•9 months ago

            It has a history in the US anti trust (when the laws really worked)

          • @vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2•9 months ago

            MacOS has userland tools from some FreeBSD version (quite obsolete, IIRC). Also there’s a port of bhyve called xhyve for MacOS. Its kernel I wouldn’t expect to have much in common with BSDs.

        • panCatEEnglish
          9•9 months ago

          Tbh i have used linux on my home pc for years now and now they are very polished products , except most corporate apps are not there !

    • @NightOwlEnglish
      28•9 months ago

      You become the product with name, address, and payment details attached to the account for improved demographic data for them to collect. Win win.