Honestly, I'm not sure anymore which one is good and which one is evil between Google and Microsoft.
I'm not that naive to think a corporation will act in a way other than to gain profit. But there are a lot of ways to gain profit and to build trust with the customer.
And I'm really not sure I can trust Google anymore and starting to build a real trust for Microsoft.
And the latter is a much more surprising fact than the former I must say.
@lig Corporations are not your friend, how hard is this to understand
@Matter I'm not making friends here. I'm hoping that some of those understand that building a user's trust is crucial for their success.
And it interesting to feel how my trust changes.
@zleap @lig @Matter I just came across this and I think it is an interesting point. Do people still trust corporations? Most people I know don't "trust" corporations but have a more "I don't care" attitude or have zero trust. My personal mantra, if I cannot find an alternative way, is to look for the lesser of two (or more) evils.
I find people don't care too, a lot of people have perhaps pretty much accepted defeat on this. We need to remember that WE are their customers and income source, either directly or via adverts (pay per click) or other means (data)
My recent scary experience with this was when I attempted to get friends and family over to Signal after Whatsapp's new privacy policy news run. I only got 10 people to get Signal! The most worrying resistance I got was "I don't want another app on my phone!". Privacy isn't even worth a block of pixels!
Sorry about the rant
@DrunkShawarma @lig @Matter Maybe there is something that can be learned from this, we need to get more people taking about privacy.
Yes, I think more people need to understand the more currently abstract (but real in the shadows) consequences of what is happening. Surprisingly even evoking the case of Cambridge Analytica didn't have an effect, though some responded when the case is made personal to them and issues that directly impact them (rather than the more abstract election hijacking) are highlighted.
@DrunkShawarma @lig @Matter yeah, you need to relate stories to people.
When their e-reader stops reading their books due to a license issue, that isn't their fault you can explain why DRM is bad, and they don't actually own the book despite paying for it,
@zleap @lig @Matter
I think even that is hard as that also becomes an argument for people to buy into their respective ecosystems... and the eventual subscriptions.