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Yeah electronics lately instead of helping people squeezes money from us
Android smartphones are just elaborate ad viewing devices with extra stuff to not throw it out. Apple are subscription milking devices where you effectively pay monthly tribute to be less of a walking data stick. pick ur poison
Crazy thing is... I'd pay for a service like the one mentioned in the post. As long as it was still a net savings of course. Even if I broke even it would still be taking the mental load of doing that off my wife and I.
It's called a Costco membership
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Honestly though you bring up a good point. Having a strategy to try to shop economically but not worry about every exact penny is probably a better life strategy than trying to analyze every scrap of data with systems in monetized, enshittified ways that 'optimize' your decision making.
For most uses, simple heuristics that gets us 95% of the way there for little effort or cost are better than resource intensive enshittified data systems that get us more 'optimized' results in a narrow sense.
I'd much rather just shop Aldi and learn how to cook eggs and and shit than try add another enshittified app 'experience ' to my daily life. I dont even use those fucking grocery apps for coupons anymore. In addition to the data scraping and selling they undoubtedly do, it isn't even worth it considering the time and inconvenience to manage the data and coupons. Between that shit and self-checkout, its like you are a low grade part time employee LOL.
Name 1 Apple subscription that improves privacy as you are describing.
What I meant is that apps on the App Store are sub based usually. At least the good ones. It's even rare to have ad revenue, pay to remove ads model. Effectively you have to pay subs to use device to the full on top of hefty apple tax.
On the play store way more apps are free but shitty quality or riddled with ads from top to bottom. data harvest fest + google selling u as product. Truly dystopic OS.
Subscription company vs ad company. Pay a lot to not be enslaved by google and I mean a lot like 4000$ (MBP+iPhone+pods+iPad+tv) + 50+$ monthly