In this case, specifically - banning ads in shit you already paid for. If there’s a subscription fee, then selling your time and attention to someone else cannot possibly be excused with ‘but but but how will they make money? (sad eyes emoji).’ It’s just greed.
Same shit for any gizmo that costs five hundred dollars and still has the unmitigated cheek to call that price ‘subsidized.’ Was that price put on you by a vengeful wizard? No. You chose to lose money. Seems like a stupid move! Not our problem to fix, by being propagandized at, on top of the 30% you make on every game same, and the subscription multiplayer fee.
Control of your hardware is important but not strictly related. Stallman was right. But I don’t need to appeal to software freedom to say, if you pay $200 for an operating system, or $500 for a console, or $120 per year for service, then at the very goddamn least there should be a big obvious button that makes all the ads permanently fuck off.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
In this case, specifically - banning ads in shit you already paid for. If there’s a subscription fee, then selling your time and attention to someone else cannot possibly be excused with ‘but but but how will they make money? (sad eyes emoji).’ It’s just greed.
Same shit for any gizmo that costs five hundred dollars and still has the unmitigated cheek to call that price ‘subsidized.’ Was that price put on you by a vengeful wizard? No. You chose to lose money. Seems like a stupid move! Not our problem to fix, by being propagandized at, on top of the 30% you make on every game same, and the subscription multiplayer fee.
Control of your hardware is important but not strictly related. Stallman was right. But I don’t need to appeal to software freedom to say, if you pay $200 for an operating system, or $500 for a console, or $120 per year for service, then at the very goddamn least there should be a big obvious button that makes all the ads permanently fuck off.