• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    9 months ago

    They want your subscription. They don’t care about friendly. They make it confusing on purpose, since less knowledgeable people will just sign up for the paid plan. It’s a dark pattern.

    • AeroLemming@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      9 months ago

      With how monolithic operating systems are and how much gets built on top of them and requires them, we really need legislation to prevent this kind of greed. There is no free market and no freedom of choice when it comes to OSes because of that dependency.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        9 months ago

        There is legislation against it, but it has to be enforced to actually be illegal.

        Edit: and enforcing it would require legislatures that understand it. Most of our legislatures were born before color TVs existed.