Oh no. Where can I buy single-use trash and toxic waste now?

You forgot both ‘Don’t send too much email’ and ‘Fail to send enough email’ as qualifiers, as well.

Which I think is the big thing that hits more people than anything else, since ‘too much traffic’ and ‘not enough traffic’ are not defined and so you can easily be caught by one, then the other, then end up in purgatory.

(This is mostly a Microsoft problem rather than a Google problem, but still.)

unmoderated

Fun fact: that’s not strictly true.

You could have moderated groups, where a moderator/group of moderators would get sent every post via email, and they’d only be posted into the group if approved.

The vast, vast, vast majority of groups were not moderated, but that’s not to say you couldn’t do so.

Oh look, a list of shitty companies everyone should avoid.

How nice of them to make it for us.

I like this method of shaming corpos making piles of money on free labor much more than what a certain other open source CEO is currently trying.

I’m just waiting for the ‘but we can’t afford it!’ lines to start coming out of these companies as their next excuse as to why they couldn’t possibly contribute back to the software that makes their entire business work.

And, well, okay, but if your business doesn’t work unless you have the unpaid labor of thousands of volunteers, perhaps we don’t need you?

So the story is ‘if they have to be unlocked, we can’t offer discounts on the phones’.

Okay fine but uh, the last time I used a post-paid subsidized phone, I signed a contract. That stipulated how much I’d pay for however many months, and what the early cancellation fee was, as well as what the required buy-out for the phone was if I left early.

In what way is that insufficient to ensure that a customer spends the money to justify the subsidy?

Depends who you’re trying to avoid.

Some downvote brigade on Lemmy? sure.

One of the major databrokers? Probably not.

Google and Meta and such don’t even need you to have an account to build accurate profiles and track you everywhere, so making a new Google account will almost certainly not buy you any real privacy: Google will just add your new account to your profile and keep right on selling your shit.