Deceptive language frequently used against consumers: Difference between revisions
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Deceptive language used by companies to impede the rights of consumers comes in many forms. Many of them can be boiled down to a few principles. | Deceptive language used by companies to impede the rights of consumers comes in many forms. Many of them can be boiled down to a few principles. | ||
=="For the safety of the consumer"== | =="For the safety of the consumer"== | ||
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Google tried to implement Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) on the Internet, giving it the name "Web Environment Integrity API".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i0Ho-x7s_U Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail] - Louis Rossmann ([https://www.brighteon.com/1f4125e9-f0cd-46a3-bf38-0ff22881c0f9 Brighteon mirror], [https://old.bitchute.com/video/Jl7ze8KjhWvK/ BitChute mirror])</ref><ref>[https://www.jodybruchon.com/2023/07/22/web-environment-integrity-must-be-stopped-enslavement-by-remote-attestation/ Web Environment Integrity Must Be Stopped: Enslavement By "Remote Attestation" - Jody Bruchon]</ref> | Google tried to implement Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) on the Internet, giving it the name "Web Environment Integrity API".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i0Ho-x7s_U Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail] - Louis Rossmann ([https://www.brighteon.com/1f4125e9-f0cd-46a3-bf38-0ff22881c0f9 Brighteon mirror], [https://old.bitchute.com/video/Jl7ze8KjhWvK/ BitChute mirror])</ref><ref>[https://www.jodybruchon.com/2023/07/22/web-environment-integrity-must-be-stopped-enslavement-by-remote-attestation/ Web Environment Integrity Must Be Stopped: Enslavement By "Remote Attestation" - Jody Bruchon]</ref> | ||
== "To enhance our services" == | =="To enhance our services"== | ||
===Samsung "offers additional content" by advertising on refrigerators=== | ===Samsung "offers additional content" by advertising on refrigerators=== | ||
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Despite using benevolent-seeming phrases such as "enhance our service" and " offer additional content", the actual aim of the change was to place large and obtrusive adverts in users' homes. | Despite using benevolent-seeming phrases such as "enhance our service" and " offer additional content", the actual aim of the change was to place large and obtrusive adverts in users' homes. | ||
== Removing practicality and usefulness to "clean" up or "streamline" the experience == | ==Removing practicality and usefulness to "clean" up or "streamline" the experience== | ||
=== Fewer ports on modern laptops === | ===Fewer ports on modern laptops=== | ||
In the 2000s and early 2010s, three or four USB ports built into laptops were not uncommon. Modern laptops in contrast usually feature one or two USB-A ports and might feature an USB-C port, in addition to less modular and less upgradeable parts. In reality, this has the opposite effect: due to fewer built-in ports on their laptops, the user is forced to carry hubs and adapters to be able to use the same functionality as before, which outweighs any portability benefit that the thinness might have afforded. Netbooks already existed as the category of laptops for people primarily interested in thinness.<ref>[https://archive.today/2022.12.17-000103/https://www.easydongle.com/why-do-new-laptops-have-less-ports/ Why are so many laptops having less ports?] - easydongle: "Companies like Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Microsoft have all been making their products thinner and streamlined. We get less ports from them because we want everything light and wirelessly connected. If you are on a laptop, you will most likely be missing out on the ports that you need for your peripherals. These days, we have to carry around a power brick, an Ethernet cable, a USB-C cable, and a micro USB cable, just to connect to the internet."</ref> | In the 2000s and early 2010s, three or four USB ports built into laptops were not uncommon. Modern laptops in contrast usually feature one or two USB-A ports and might feature an USB-C port, in addition to less modular and less upgradeable parts. In reality, this has the opposite effect: due to fewer built-in ports on their laptops, the user is forced to carry hubs and adapters to be able to use the same functionality as before, which outweighs any portability benefit that the thinness might have afforded. Netbooks already existed as the category of laptops for people primarily interested in thinness.<ref>[https://archive.today/2022.12.17-000103/https://www.easydongle.com/why-do-new-laptops-have-less-ports/ Why are so many laptops having less ports?] - easydongle: "Companies like Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Microsoft have all been making their products thinner and streamlined. We get less ports from them because we want everything light and wirelessly connected. If you are on a laptop, you will most likely be missing out on the ports that you need for your peripherals. These days, we have to carry around a power brick, an Ethernet cable, a USB-C cable, and a micro USB cable, just to connect to the internet."</ref> | ||
=== Google wants to help cleaning up MicroSD cards by denying normal write access === | ===Google wants to help cleaning up MicroSD cards by denying normal write access=== | ||
MicroSD cards became a major selling point of Android smartphones compared to iPhones, allowing the expansion of the storage capacity by multiple times at a time where smartphone internal storage capacities were only in the double-digit gigabytes. In addition, MicroSD cards make it easy to rescue data from a broken smartphone and to get immediate free storage within minutes without hour-long file transfers. | MicroSD cards became a major selling point of Android smartphones compared to iPhones, allowing the expansion of the storage capacity by multiple times at a time where smartphone internal storage capacities were only in the double-digit gigabytes. In addition, MicroSD cards make it easy to rescue data from a broken smartphone and to get immediate free storage within minutes without hour-long file transfers. | ||
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* If this was the actual goal, they would have done the same on internal storage. How come they initially only applied these restrictions to MicroSD, not internal storage? This was in 2014, where 32 GB were considered an average amount of internal storage, while MicroSD cards could be much larger, so the same files would have taken a lower percentage of the space. | *If this was the actual goal, they would have done the same on internal storage. How come they initially only applied these restrictions to MicroSD, not internal storage? This was in 2014, where 32 GB were considered an average amount of internal storage, while MicroSD cards could be much larger, so the same files would have taken a lower percentage of the space. | ||
* If an app leaves unwanted files, the user would simply uninstall the app and not use it again. | *If an app leaves unwanted files, the user would simply uninstall the app and not use it again. | ||
* Google is assuming judgement over which files are to be considered "junk". This is a decision of the device owner. If the device owner wants to remove "junk", they could already use the delete button in their file manager. Google is assuming that third-party apps leave unwanted files by default. | *Google is assuming judgement over which files are to be considered "junk". This is a decision of the device owner. If the device owner wants to remove "junk", they could already use the delete button in their file manager. Google is assuming that third-party apps leave unwanted files by default. | ||
* There are valid reasons not to delete files left behind by an uninstalled app. What if you used a third-party camera app or text editor? Should all files you created with these apps be deleted if you uninstall the app? Of course not. | *There are valid reasons not to delete files left behind by an uninstalled app. What if you used a third-party camera app or text editor? Should all files you created with these apps be deleted if you uninstall the app? Of course not. | ||
* MicroSD cards were one of the major selling points of Android smartphones over iPhones. Google attacked one of the main reasons people bought Android smartphones in the first place. | *MicroSD cards were one of the major selling points of Android smartphones over iPhones. Google attacked one of the main reasons people bought Android smartphones in the first place. | ||
* If the device owner doesn't trust an app with access to the entire MicroSD card, perhaps they should not be using that app in the first place. Why would a user trust the same app with normal write access to internal storage but not the MicroSD card? | *If the device owner doesn't trust an app with access to the entire MicroSD card, perhaps they should not be using that app in the first place. Why would a user trust the same app with normal write access to internal storage but not the MicroSD card? | ||
* In any case, the device owner should have been given the final say. A simple toggle in the storage options would have done the job. The device owner must be able to decide if they want so-called "protections" that are muzzles, not shields. | *In any case, the device owner should have been given the final say. A simple toggle in the storage options would have done the job. The device owner must be able to decide if they want so-called "protections" that are muzzles, not shields. | ||
With this, Google created a much bigger problem than they solved. Those supposed "junk files" aren't nearly as bad as losing normal write access to the MicroSD card and external USB OTG, which were among Android smartphones' biggest selling points. It's like attacking a fly using a tank. | With this, Google created a much bigger problem than they solved. Those supposed "junk files" aren't nearly as bad as losing normal write access to the MicroSD card and external USB OTG, which were among Android smartphones' biggest selling points. It's like attacking a fly using a tank. | ||