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Pay for Windows, get bloatware and ads. Pay for Mac OS...don't.

Use Google, get everything for free subsidized by ads. Pay for Windows, still get ads?

Hmmmmm

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Get Linux for free, still don't get ads.

Not true [1]. Ubuntu is full of recommendations for non-free / malicious "snaps" and has telemetry (opt out + remove a few packages).

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17326184/firefox-ads-spons...

Ubuntu does not define Linux. There's plenty of other, well-maintained distros.

Ubuntu not only came (or still comes?) with an Amazon app right on the launcher, but also offered Amazon product suggestions when you were using the search function.

use debian, mint or arch

I am sure that providers with paid products like Netflix or HBO are watching closely. Until now the deal was that the customer pays to get rid of ads but maybe they can make the customer pay and still show ads?

I don't think that Microsoft serving ads within their native mail application has strong ramifications for Netflix or HBO. They are different market segments with different expectations.

The pressure to serve ads in everything that has eyeballs on it is universal.

Yea, that's the cable revenue model, it's not working out so well for them right now. I would be very careful about double dipping.

I’m fairly sure Hulu has done this from the beginning, right? I never understood the allure of paying for Hulu but still seeing ads. I just went to check and apparently you can pay extra to get rid of ads.

Recently Amazon has been playing ads at the beginning of shows that are offered for free via Prime. I feel like I even saw them when I had bought a season of a show, but it is now offered for free via Prime.

So far it seems like buying shows and movies through Apple is ad-free.

My, I wish there was an OS that respected my freedoms unlike all of those... Hmm.

Time is money. Learning/setting up/operating around Linux is expensive.

>Learning

In practical terms, any software engineer knows how to work in a POSIX environment, so no issue here.

>setting up

If you mean "installing Linux", then any mainstream distro (e.g. Linux Mint) is ready to go out of the box. If you mean "configuring things up to your liking" then it is no more time-consuming than any other setup.

>operating

Don't know what you mean by this, but a POSIX environment is probably the most efficient/least painful way to do software development.

If you use Windows' Mail client with Gmail, do you get served both Microsoft AND Google ads?

You don’t pay for macOS though. EDIT: yes you can argue you pay for it with your purchase of hardware but you don’t pay for future revisions.

You do implicitly with your purchase of Apple hardware.

You do, but it's included in the hardware price.

Please let me know how I can get macOS for free :)

Edit: You also don't get free updates if you don't have an Apple machine. Still not free.

Sure you do. I get free updates on my hackintosh, I just have to be very careful about actually installing them.

https://saintlad.com/install-macos-sierra-in-virtualbox-on-w...

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