Did the same with a site made to upload and share videos people made themselves and watch videos others made and chat about them.

People will always buy the things they need, advertising is about pushing the things they dont need. How have we got to the state where that is the actual business of most of the large technology research and development corporations.

“We are in close contact with our American partners”, I am sure.

Corporations pretend to the public that their business is providing services when in reality their business is making profit. Corporations are just starting to realise AI research has pulled a similar switch on them, it pretended to be in the business of making profit but actually its business was something else, something about switching the means of production.

I tried to make that exact argument when I was buying a hammer from Homebase but they said fading into the background of an observing consciousness is not the same as merging into a single entity with it.

If you build it they will come.

Or to kill them sooner.

I am ready, I bought some extra tinned goods in the last delivery and I have enough fentanyl left from my mum’s palliative care to kill a rhino.

What our glorious ill informed leaders do not seem to have realised as yet is that it will apply to them too. So everything they look at online will be linked to their actual identity and is thereby more easily discerned, to be spewed all over the internet when the time is right. Or maybe that is the point, delivery of prosecution or blackmail in neater and more convenient packages.

Dynamic pricing nudges the price to the maximum a customer can afford which temporarily maximises profits but creates in the mind of the customer a feeling of being relentlessly over charged and eventually and long-term they won’t come back.

Microsoft adds the bloat themselves, and ever increasing telemetry reporting back, promises to update W10 for the lifetime of the device, reneges on it with W11 quoting security as its rationale but leaving 400 million users without security updates. Does all this at a time Linux is becoming very friendly and android phones have a desktop mode so they can be plugged into a keyboard and monitor and bypass the need for Windows. Microsoft has a bit of a think about the market value of its idiot direction and decides to remove a lot of the crap slowing the OS and give people back a little privacy, touts it as a new way of thinking about personal computing.