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kworpy ,
@kworpy@lemm.ee avatar

And these companies think piracy is unjustified. No, it's just holding out an umbrella in the rain.

muh_entitlement ,

Piracy is ALWAYS justified! These companies are dead set on robbing me blind. Well guess what: if I never spent a nickel, there's nothing to rob me of! To the high seas!

Showroom7561 ,

A "purchase" or "buy" option, especially when you get an invoice, should ALWAYS mean ownership of the product.

A "borrow" or "rent" option is one that you expect to have to return the product.

Google can't have it both ways. They either sold people software or they rented it out. Since it was never advertised or marketed as the Google Play Rental Library, they should be forced to give people the products they paid for.

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yup, I've said it a million times, it needs to be made flatly illegal to use language that implies ownership if the company has any method of revoking your ownership of that product in the future. These threads always get the same libertarians that show up in discussions about non-functional slack fill saying "it's not illegal, so what's the problem?" The problem is that it isn't illegal. Imagine if Toyota could come grab your car from your driveway, because even though you paid it off, subclause 74 of section G(2) says that the company retains the right to repossess property made by them at any time for any reason. You didn't read a 200 page contract at the dealership when you bought the car, you just trusted that they wouldn't fuck you. Toyota would get their ass reamed in court if they tried that, so why are Google and Microsoft and Sony and Steam allowed to do it?

space ,

Not only that. If you buy an app, you are at the mercy of its creator. If they decide they want to fill it with ads and tracking, or switch to a subscription model, there's nothing you can do. You can't rollback updates, you can't install an older version from the play store. If they decide to remove it from the store, you won't be able to install it any more.

Piwix ,

On that note, I bought a GIF viewer app's full version via in-app purchase and about a year later, they updated the app to have ads again regardless and my "full version no ads" app got ads again and now i had to buy a subscription per month to be "ad free" needless to say I uninstalled

Fog0555 ,

Well you can always use https://blokada.org (version 5, which runs on your phone). It stops most ads.

Piwix ,

I set up a VPN tunnel to my home network and use pihole to block ads which worked on this app too, so that wasn't a problem but the audacity to remove my paid-for full access was astoundingly awful

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

i use Adblock dns

SuperSpruce ,

This is rage inducing.

Imagine if your car dealer was allowed to confiscate your car on a dubious claim such as "it doesn't meet the latest emissions standards," but not even telling you that.

Google needs to be fined twice the value of the apps that it stole from it's paying customers.

MonsiuerPatEBrown ,

"Tesla has a new feature that will disable your seat controls if you keep messing with them"

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911072/tesla-seat-controls-disable-lock-out-brose

SuperSpruce ,

This is so stupid. Why would a company put this much effort to lock down the seat controls, as if they didn't already exist without limits on every other car? Not even with a toggle? These companies are really trying to destroy the "cars = freedom" association.

cmnybo ,

They get disabled for 5 minutes, probably to give the motors time to cool down.

Gestrid ,

If the motors need to cool down, they need to rethink their motors.

barsoap ,

Motors get hot and it's quite reasonable to not include tons of cooling just so that you can adjust your seat for hours on end.

That said the implementation is still stupid as time isn't the right measure to judge motor temperature, motor temperature is. Thermocouples cost fractions of a cent, the motors probably already include one or two as they already have smarts (being hooked up to the CAN bus and not straight voltage). Which would also take care of differing environmental temperatures as obviously the motors are worse at shedding heat when it's scorching hot in the car.

hperrin ,

Because you signed (digitally) an agreement that lets them do that.

Pirate everything.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Also, don't use Google. Wherever possible.

firecat ,

Don’t buy games on Steam or Valve Corporation, they make you sign the User Agreement that legally waves your rights and ownership of games.

Gestrid ,

Actually, Steam is usually one of the best places when it comes to refunds. The process is simple, and they're willing to make exceptions to the rules. And the company is run by one of the few CEOs in the gaming industry who seem to actually understand gaming.

ColeSloth ,

And a large portion of the steam community will be super sad if Gaben retires or passes away. We can only hope it continues to be run as well as it has been over the past 15 years.

LazaroFilm ,
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

They’re not purchases, they’re leases.

Edit: it’s actually that you purchase access to their license of the media.

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