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What are some subscription services done right? (lemmy.umucat.day)

submitted 2 weeks ago by xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This question just came to me while I was buying a subway pass. It's priced very well, provides a very good service, doesn't suffer from enshittification, and its price increases very rarely.

What are some other services which people don't mind subscribing to?

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, I complain about Google and Apple being proprietary. That alone is a deal breaker for me so I really don't give a shit about them not having file management or whatever other old school feature. And if a sufficiently rigorous security model must take away old school file management in favour of a more restrictive system, so be it, as long as it's open source and publicly auditable.

If you're relying on a proprietary operating system, literally none of that matters because your root of trust is inherently untrustworthy. The operating system itself can (and have been shown again and again and again to do) include malware that can never be removed and you can never be sure it doesn't.