I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

  • @essteeyouEnglish
    22•10 months ago

    Or Android, or iOS, or a Chromebook, or whatever other OS you’re using next year, if it isn’t some sort of Linux/UNIX system… and even some of those might not be great, but at least you can find out.

    • panCatEEnglish
      9•10 months ago

      Tbh i have used linux on my home pc for years now and now they are very polished products , except most corporate apps are not there !

    • sebinspaceEnglish
      4•10 months ago

      I mean… Android and ChromeOS are Linux underneath. MacOS is… related to Unix. Hang on, I need to look up that lineage…

      Also Lineage.

      Edit: MacOS used/uses the Mach kernel, and uses code “derived from BSD”, vague as Wikipedia is. That could mean it’s a whole copy-paste or that it just borrows ideas from BSD.

      • panCatEEnglish
        5•10 months ago

        It has a history in the US anti trust (when the laws really worked)

      • @[email protected]English
        2•10 months ago

        MacOS has userland tools from some FreeBSD version (quite obsolete, IIRC). Also there’s a port of bhyve called xhyve for MacOS. Its kernel I wouldn’t expect to have much in common with BSDs.

      • @essteeyouEnglish
        0•10 months ago

        I suspect that’s a fraction of a percent of Android devices, though.