Post #2829587

2025-08-30 08:01 UTC

@jazaval@mastodon.social @leeloo@chaosfem.tw @lianna@micro.webgarden.click I feel like terms and conditions that are designed not just to ensure the bare minimum needed for a transaction or service between the client and the provider to take place but to expand beyond that to ensure the continued dominance of the provider over the client (and possibly limit the emergance of competitors) are a good or fair thing. I mean antitrust is a thing and we have that exactly to prevent exactly that sort of deal.

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@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org 2025-08-30 08:02

@jazaval@mastodon.social @leeloo@chaosfem.tw @lianna@micro.webgarden.click Besides that, allowing the user to have agency over the device via installing apps freely or further enabling/disabling functions and features of the OS as they wish has absolutely nothing to do with any of that. At this point what even was this discussion supposed to be about in the first place?

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@jazaval@mastodon.social 2025-08-30 15:24

@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org @leeloo@chaosfem.tw @lianna@micro.webgarden.click well EULAs vary, but sideloading covers a number of security and piracy concerns. the hobbyist days of computing where collaborative behavior was required simply for the end-user experience to exist are over. this doesn’t make competitive behavior illegal or immoral, it makes you overly nostalgic.

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