| ▲ | jdalgetty 17 hours ago |
| If there's a screen, there will be ads. |
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| ▲ | fsflover 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not if it runs free software. |
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| ▲ | npteljes 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | Free software is not immune either, like in case of Ubuntu, or Firefox. But honestly, it's nitpicking, free software is humanity's real chance of having ethical software, and the situation in open source land is orders of magnitude better in this regards, than in proprietary land. | | |
| ▲ | fsflover an hour ago | parent [-] | | Both Ubuntu and Firefox aren't free software but a mixture of free and non-free software. Also they both allow to easily remove the ads unlike any fully proprietary software. |
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| ▲ | the_third_wave 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "The cause of the recent crash of flight ADZRUS-666 has been determined to be a badly scheduled ad impression which covered all screens in the glass cockpit to show aan ad of a dancing hippopotamus in a tutu selling skin care products while the plane was on final approach in IFR conditions." |
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| ▲ | lawlessone 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | "We have determined removing the ads will cost us more in lost revenue than compensating victims families the occasional time this happens." |
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