People don’t know, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter

Maybe not, but surely the clouds’ infrastructure, the webservers, and the mobile phones matter to people…

Moreover even if the 10% is inflated, Windows falling to 57 is crazy

You can entirely be for-profit and earn your profit without the reselling of personal data. It was more common before net 2.0, for example Google first served you one or two links of ads based on your search. No saving and forwarding user data, just simply “for X amount, your webpage will be displayed to users searching Y keyword”

Does it have cloud saves ?

no problems with being for-profit, the problem is getting money from selling the private date of those using your product

“Your private data is extremely important to us, as we make money from it”, how the hell do they manage to be this shady x(((

Years ago I had found a neat Windows software for this. You could just log in with your Amazon credentials and remove the DRMs on the books in your account. They could then be converted into pdfs with an other program.

I was doing this for my wife, and when she needed an other one of her books in pdf format she would ask me to “pirate” it. It pissed me off “it’s yours, it’s not piracy, it’s file conversion !!” How the industry managed to actually get people to accept the stuff they buy isn’t theirs :(

Pretty interesting read, thanks for the share !

wat

Idk, in Hungary no-one uses a VPN, as neither studios nor institutions really care about piracy there