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!? 😑

  • sebinspace
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    469 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.world
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      229 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.

      • sebinspace
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        109 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.

        • panCatE
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          59 months ago

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

        • @vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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          29 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.

      • panCatE
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        99 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 !