Joël de Bruijn

Ah thnx, totally unaware of this dynamic, very well explained.

The comments on fediverse assume enshittification will begin.

But isnt this just bragging about having a big new client? What has this got to do with enshittification?

Volkswagen Beetle ❤️

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle_in_Mexico?wprov=sfla1

Oh wow … stating this is just regular fingerprinting is out of touch.

Its like my electric energy supplier analyzing current data and knowing brand, model and type of dishwasher and fridge. Which they can.

Still cat software running on dog hardware

So everything in that definition cant be applied to VLC, at this point … stop digging a hole …

Google only respects corporate boundaries for specific things (like email and cloud storage of the org doing the mdm).

Your use case has a lot, outside of that, meaning all consumer services they track anyway.

If its without an account they keep a profile without account info, but every data point they get adds to it nonetheless.

In NL we did research of MDM kids accounts for schools. Turns out all those things not school related they keep tracking.