I could imagine you get discounts on insurance.

Well they get the money directly from the user. In most cases this is more profitable.

Well let me blow your mind by rotating my phone;)

(Also the ferry kinda cracks the comparison)

I like to compare that to a stranger looking through your window while you sit on your couch watching TV.

There is no harm if the stranger knows how often you scratch your butt or what other information he gathers. But we still would put the afford in preventing that Espionage.

The thing about the collection of data online is you don’t know what’s happening to it.

Will radical groups buy information to categorize people into groups of enemies. Will it lead to false positives during a law enforcement investigation because they subpoena some cunk of information which contained yours.

This is of course an extravaganted worst case. But it won’t get better during capitalism and enchitification.

Your rant is justified.

But if you compare that to a user who is used to only one way of installing a system and only one way of installing new Software. Then it can be overwhelming at first glance when you are in the middle of a problem with what seems to be the only way to install packages and not in the overview of multiple package managers.

How do you get them out? Asking for a friend

I will be taking my shit to the grave! Fuck, that’s literally giving it back to the Earth.

Thanos: And I call that, Mercy.

I think you don’t have in mind that it takes time to develop an app. Some people do it in only their free time so it takes even longer. I think some apps started being developed during the reddit blackouts.