I was talking about the products themselves. None of the brands you mention would be popular nor would be able to justify their prices if their products came with an LCD to display ads and beeped at you every 10 minutes to make you look at it.
Good old surveillance capitalism. The cruel irony: the most valuable data is produced by those with the means to buy their way out of data tracking.
I want one of those big master lists made for things you can actually own and not rent - from free or non-subscription software to devices that won't randomly brick themselves if a company's server goes down.
The only sliver of hope is that most of the surveillance capitalism is itself funded by VC-backed bullshit startups that can afford to spend unsustainable amounts of money on customer acquisition in a futile attempt to secure a monopoly or economies of scale and we see that it isn’t really working out in the long term, so eventually this bubble will pop and data about customers with not much money will no longer warrant such advanced efforts to capture it.
