Because if they’re riding bikes they might not be buying $70k cars. How are the poor car companies going to afford to survive now? Someone think of the shareholders.

I’ll go without a phone before I agree to terms like that. I refuse to go without my permission spoofing and privacy enhancements. I’m not giving them unrestricted access to my data, they’ll have to at the very least try harder and waste more money on hackers than usual.

Google is one of the few vendors (is it the only one left?) that still sell bootloader unlockable phones period. I don’t care about being able to use Google pay or anything. I just want to make my information more difficult and expensive to harvest by being able to use privacy apps to spoof app permissions. That and blocking ads. I would at the very least seriously experiment with no longer having a smartphone if they got rid of all the unlockable bootloaders once and for all and banned or made them incompatible with all the networks.

See I don’t want China to win, I just want evil corporations to lose. I hope they ramp up the “fuck your copyright” shenanigans more tbh. Really stick it to them as hard as possible. Is an evil corporation in another country stealing technology from a different evil corporation in a different country really the best way to fight this? No. But it still causes bad people to lose money which in the end is what matters.