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Average users will not have the knowledge or patience for work arounds.
Imo, the larger problem seems to be the majority of users appear to be fine with ads and data collection just to watch a movie or series.
It only works in competition which we don’t have for the most part.
Instead we have the illusion of choice through multiple brand product names. There’s a couple choices, sure, but few enough to function as an effective monopoly.
I notice OP said
And you agreed with him, but I'd like to point out you're talking about one country
Monopolies are really really bad for consumers and are strictly regulated in modern countries
You can either vote with your wallet or do nothing...
Working people have no way to lobby government, shortage of a revolution, real people make decisions for benefit of other real people.
NPCs are just here to enrich them both.
I don't agree but you can either vote with your wallet or mindlessly consume.
One is better than the other but yeah 80% of spending is not really discretionary... Gonna need to get a rental, gonna need healthcare, transports education etc
But you can stop drinking soda for example... It ain't much but it is something.
People don't have to pay subscriptions either...
I think maybe we voted with our wallets against $6 chips but you could probably convince me otherwise in a paragraph :)
Yeah that's well put. All this advocacy for adblockers and not accepting the awful state of things fall on deaf ears, most people don't care, they accept the state of things as it is, and technology as magic.
People deserve better and should expect/demand better.
But that's the thing. To play the devil's advocate:
Should they? Says who? Us - who to most people are - "weird computer people" for knowing how to navigate an excel spreadsheet?
We know it sucks. But they're entitled to think it's fine, especially since we've made so much noise about this for the past decade that it's hard to imagine anyone is uneducated still.
"Liberating" the masses in this manner seems like a crusade up the alley of Don Quixote.
They're not "fine with ads and data collection" so much as they don't care and can't be bothered to look for a better way.
It's just apathy and a bit of lazy inertia.
This implies they are fine with it by tacit agreement.
No, it implies that they don't understand that there is an option.
Your average user would also never be on lemmy to see this, at least for now.
and i bet if most users would not put up with that, they would remove hdmi ports.