> The appetite to depart from subscriptions and loaning your personal data to ad/ai companies is stronger than ever.

Only on HN, the general public don't care, they don't even know the name of their web browser.

myaccountonhn 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

General public is weird because everyone, yet no one, is the general public.

Fwiw I've started to see a shift in many non-tech circles I'm a part of. Especially when you take the time to explain the problems. Many do care, they just aren't made aware of the issues.

	▲	edoceo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		GP typically means middle of the bell-curve. HN visitors and for sure commenters are at the edge of that curve...3-sta-nines away.

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noman-land an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The general public will do whatever their friends do. If there was an iPhone charger sized box they could plug in anywhere and have their own personal cloud that can interconnect with other personal clouds, and a celebrity said it was cool to have one, the general public will do it without giving it a first thought.

	▲	yoz-y 6 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In my experience just telling people to enable Google / Apple backup for photos is a chore at 5€ a month. And for general public this covers 90% of their needs.
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sevenzero 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

True, most people get the full ad driven internet experience and it drives me nuts. Everytime I have to help other people with computer stuff I almost get an aneurysm when opening their browser...