

the illusion of privacy. wat.
there wasnt an illusion of privacy 20 fucking years ago.
i’ve read articles printed on physical paper how three letter agencies provided funding to then upcoming social media sites.
i remember how fucking upset i was that everybody was just downloading shitty facebook apps while giving them full access to their contacts when smartphones took off. it didnt took a genius to connect the dots. they built a pretty accurate shadow profile of me by just tracking who had my fucking number. Even if i never had touched facebook products with a ten foot pole.
this makes me legit so fucking angry. complete brainrot. like i’m happy there are still articles beeing made which hint at the privacy nightmare we live in. but as a society we should be so much further. these are known issues for fucking decades now.
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When it first became a thing it was a nobrainer for me. Instead of paying 60 bucks i could get a subscription for next to nothing. Play that one (newish) game i was legimatedly interested in and then try out maybe a few more after that which looked interesting but i wouldnt have bought. Sure, i didnt own the game afterwards. But tbh i barely play through most of my bought games. Playing through them a second time is even more rare.
I did the promotional months a few times on different services over the years and even bought once a legit 3 months prepaid card for PC Gamepass for like 30 bucks. It still was a pretty good deal because i could play Sniper Elite 5 and a few other titles which would have been way more expensive even with deals at the time. But i played through the games i wanted to play in the first month. In the other two months i paid for i barely touched the Gamepass app because the rest of the games catalogue was kinda meh.
I just looked it up. Those 3 months were 3 years ago. Since then it never felt like a good deal to me to subscribe to another service.