JonEFive

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That's the potentially nice thing about Lemmy though - if you're savvy, you will probably start to identify which instances are more or less trustworthy than others. And if an instance tends to have a lot of untrustworthy activity, defederation is always an option. To what extent we'll see those things play out, I don't know yet, but it'll be interesting to see.

Right. Which is exactly why removing tactile knobs and buttons is stupid.

You're wrong in this specific case, but you're actually not too far off in your overall assessment. Your scepticism is warranted. My true reason for canceling would be that I'm not satisfied with the service. Their corporate behavior would merely be a motivating factor to log into the website and click cancel when I would otherwise not think much about letting it autorenew each month.

But yeah, do I purchase goods and services from bad companies? Of course I do. You try successfully avoiding all Nestle products. It's damn near impossible. Can't switch away from Comcast because there are no available competitors. I don't think twice about buying food from Chick-fil-A. OK, maybe I think twice, but I can't say that second thought has ever truly impacted my decision. The list goes on.

The only company I've taken a very firm stance against is Meta/Facebook. It's easy to live without participating in Facebook's services. They may collect data about me against my will, but I no longer voluntarily give them anything.

Realistically? No. Or at least not JUST because they advertise on Xitter. It would be one of those final straw things. I'm not entirely satisfied with the service to begin with, so that would be the motivation I need to finally say "yeah, I don't need to be paying this company any more". So if it weren't for my partner, yes I would be canceling when I otherwise might have let the subscription sit for longer.

But if there were shows or movies that I personally enjoyed watching, (which is the case fire my partner) their choice to advertise on Xitter doesn't impact our decision one bit and they know it. Which is exactly why they went right back to advertising there.

Here's where the loyalty part comes into play: if the insurance company doesn't like something, they can and will drop you or refuse to renew your policy depending on relevant laws. They might have decent service and pay claims without much of a fight, and those are incredibly valuable service qualities. So you're making the right decision for yourself if that's what's important to you and that's the experience you've had.

But if all things are equal, there's no good reason to pay a higher premium for the same service. You better believe that insurance company will drop you in a heartbeat if their analysis indicates that they won't have the level of profit from you that they want. As a for-profit business, that's their perogative just as much as it's yours if you want to switch.

I tend to agree with you by the way. Loyalty comes in many forms. I might not be loyal to a company per se. If they've consistently provided me with a level of service that I'm satisfied with at a price that I feel is appropriate for the value, then I'm not going to go through the trouble of checking prices and switching carriers every year just to save a few bucks. And there's the hassle of being hounded by a half dozen companies that now have your contact info after you requested quotes. That's all a big no thanks from me.

You might be able to adjust things without taking your eyes off the road fairly safely if you had some sort of tactile feedback. Like a knob to adjust the volume of the radio or another knob or lever to adjust the heat/AC. I doubt you could do so just as reliably and without accidentally hitting a different button with a touch screen without looking at all, but even if you can, most drivers couldn't.

There's also a learning curve to contend with. Put me in a car with a standard stereo that has a volume knob, and I'll be able to use it without looking pretty quickly and without error. Put me in a car that has only a touch screen with a UI that is different from every other manufacturer's UI, now I have to memorize where buttons are. And until I have it memorized, I have to look.

It isn't at all reasonable or feasible to suggest you shouldn't adjust any control unless you're stopped. That completely ignores the fact that the US is comprised of many highways and interstates that won't have any stops for hours under the right conditions. You're telling me that you exit the freeway just to adjust the AC? That's a lie and you know it. And again, even if that's the case for you, it isn't the case for most drivers.

Cars marketed to the masses should be designed for use by the masses and should be designed with safety in mind. These are 80 mph tin cans that can do a ton of damage and need to be treated as such. Especially modern EVs with batteries that burn with the light and temperature of 1000 suns when damaged.

Also "every other driver is staring at their phone" sounds like a disingenuous way to suggest that taking your eyes off the road is okay because everyone else does it too. Yes, lots of people do, but lots of people do not, and just because some do, that doesn't mean we should design our cars in a way that requires the same level of inattention.

They were always going to. As long as Xitter has a user base with money to spend, the large corporations do not care. Anything they do like withdrawing advertising is all for show.

And after all, are you going to cancel your Netflix subscription over this? I actually probably would personally but my partner uses it quite a lot, so we're sticking around. Some people will cancel no doubt but nowhere near a critical mass that will affect their bottom line and they know it.

I want to believe you and I hope you're right, but I have such little faith in corporations ever doing the right thing anymore.

Google has a history of this sort of "whoops, we got caught, uhhh... That was just a bug!" behavior.

I don't really see how the data lost is actionable in any way

Agreed unfortunately. An important thing in US law that people often don't know is that in most cases, you need to prove that you were damaged in some way. Unless the company broke a specific law, you probably just have to accept it until you have problems relating to identity theft. And even when that happens, you'd still need to prove that the the attacker used the lost 23andMe data.

I personally don't understand why people use these services in the first place. Let's all let some private company that we know nothing about build an absolutely massive database of people's DNA. And let's voluntarily do it and even pay them for that "service". Sure, that sounds like a good idea. What could possibly go wrong? Hope your minor curiosity was worth the massive privacy invasion.

If you build it, maybe they'll come.