High-profile lawsuits against Google and Amazon have revealed Silicon Valley’s vise grip on our lives.

We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse::High-profile lawsuits against Google and Amazon have revealed Silicon Valley’s vise grip on our lives.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It wasn’t though. It was slow and didn’t really work properly and didn’t work on phones. The underlying technology is vastly improved.

        What’s gone wrong is businesses, but that’s got nothing to do with the internet that’s just capitalism fulfilling it’s inevitable conclusion of charging for everything and letting you own nothing.

        There needs to be a law that says that once a customer buys something online (e.g a movie on Netflix or a game on Steam) the company must compensate then if their access to that thing is lost due to licencing changes. They can prevent new people from gaining access to the content but they cannot revoke access to people who have already paid money.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It worked fine on phones starting in 2010, but even before that it didn’t because devs are lazy. Even today the number of sites that don’t work on iOS is appalling (and iOS represents a massive number of clients, with a single dev target).