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Hizonner

... and you continue to let them abuse you.

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Don't give your money to these places? HSBC won't let me use my rooted phone either, so guess who lost my business?

Next time we will go to the professional baseball stadium across the street instead.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too. If you want this stop, you gotta stop using these services, even if it means sacrificing a hobby.

If, on the other hand, you care more about your hobby than these quirks annoy you, than by all means, go right ahead.

I'd rather try and get the executives, product managers, and engineers who implemented it fired and elect politicians that will make policies like that illegal.

I could go to a baseball game last year and have been able to for decades. The march to enshittification isn't inevitable. Otherwise there will be no hobbies in the future, and I'll be hoarding my money to just sit in my house doing nothing.

> I'd rather try and get the executives, product managers, and engineers who implemented it fired

How has that been working out for you? Apparently you have some avenue to apply pressure for that, other than the obvious one of not buying the tickets.

Why should anybody fire them, given that their actions have caused no actual harm to the bottom line? Obviously the ticket buyers don't care, so why should management or owners care?

> and elect politicians that will make policies like that illegal.

Sounds great. Who do I vote for?

I agree with you in principle, but reality is far and away from this, unfortunately. These types of companies need an incentive to change their ways, and money is the only language they know how to speak—and in “they” I’m including all the executives, product managers, engineers and, ESPECIALLY, the politicians you spoke about. Money will always trump morals when it comes to companies that voluntarily elect to put such shady deals in practice.

People would quit the sport before to stop. They won't.

The solution is to quit frequenting places that abuse you like this.

But it seems you LIKE being abused.

It's not necessarily enjoying it. OP evidently just thinks the trade-off is worth it. Some people like baseball more than researching which phone they can buy, which one has an unlockable bootloader, and which is supported (even unofficially) by LineageOS.

That's fine. They don't have to. Their solution can be calling their local representative and complaining that the stadium their city is paying for, is locking them out.

I had forgotten that we are paying billionaires to own stadia. Cannot find funding for schools or libraries but we can sure pay someone who doesn't need the money so they can build a monument to their own ego.

Stop buying their tickets.

The solution is to not buy the tickets

Boycott.

Lawsuit.

Organise.

Publicise.

Shame.

Lobby the government for providing basic guarantees for ease of access in digital environment. Some political factions like the Pirate Party in EU is already working on acts like Digital Fairness Act to prevent such monopolies.

You can have (or provide) a phone that's specifically for those use cases and you can turn it off for actual communication.

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