“Come with me if you want to yiff.”

The problem is, you don’t get a say in the matter. If the marketing company sells on your data, you don’t get to say no.

If Ford wants telemetry on your car (and they do) and they sell it to your insurance company who raises your rates because you don’t drive in a manner approved by corporate, you don’t get to say no.

If you search for wigs and antinausea meds, and Google sells that to health insurance who guesses you’ve got cancer and are a financial liability, you don’t get to say no, and you don’t get to argue that you were planning for a party.

If you’re a fifteen year old kid and your browser starts showing gay dating ads to your extremely homophobic parents, you’d better hope they don’t put it together because you don’t get to stop any of it.

You can control how your data is gathered, but you have ZERO say in how it’s distributed and interpreted.

You don’t even need demand eternal support. Just say that if manufacturers want their product to expire like milk, then they can damn well print an expiry date on the package, too.

How would "“Will cease functioning on <x>” affect consumer purchasing decisions?

I’ve only ever seen goog.le looks used in spam and phishing emails, so I’m not particularly sad about this

Of course, there’s roughly eighty million other folks who think they’ve each done a short link provider better, somehow, so this won’t make much of a difference beyond not relying on the bots at Google to deal with abuse problems.

Yeah, at a certain scale you’re not paying for the technology… you’re paying for a scapegoat.

“We just love our customers so much, it makes us crazy sometimes…”

I think their point is that when everyone’s income is $0/hr price becomes pretty much irrelevant (unless also $0)

Put another way: I’m not going to believe in a new product more than the vendor does, because that’s stupid. And we’ve had it demonstrated time and time again that the vendors don’t believe in their products.