Take me back in time to the 2000s when the most scandalous spyware was a purple gorilla virtual assistant telling awful jokes with a TTS voice.
Off topic, but I keep hearing your comments in Max Headroom’s voice. This one was especially suitable for that!
I remember when it was something of a privacy scandal that RealPlayer would phone home to check for updates.
Still, end of the day, if people aren’t willing to pay for services with money, directly, then they’re going to pay with their data.
And all of it 100% unnecessary. Which is painful to think about the 30M people that signed up without caring about this.
It isn’t unnecessary at all, if you’re Meta.
Which is the fundamental issue with a system like that.
The priority is in the wrong damn place.
