Yeah. It's certainly impressive how we've come to suspect specific companies of each shitty move in our lives, and usually be 100% correct in our suspicions.

Anything that points at fucking up gaming is going to be Sony, Microsoft, EA or Ubisoft (not accounting for some of the smaller companies that are certain to be part of an organized ring of games-destroying "gaming" companies".

For personal surveillance, while governments, data brokers and hackers are the main beneficiaries, every single tech company is involved at some level, and we can usually point out which ones are part of any specific case fairly easy.

But what blows my mind the most is that, because there is no real push-back, they feel comfortable not trying to deny any of their predatory and mafia-like practices anymore. Sure, if we make enough noise their PR teams will drop a few social media bullshit posts to calm down the masses, and then just drop the subject entirely hoping it just dies down over time, or in extreme cases, pedal back for a few months, and then just do it anyway, since people will stop caring about it at some point (for example, Reddit).

And something I've been thinking lately is making more and more sense every day, when I see shot like this. What if they are betting on us getting tired of fighting against this and just giving in because of the sheer volume of shitty things every company is doing? It's such a large volume of tracking, surveillance, control, deception, predatory TOSs, etc, that they know we cannot focus on all of it at once, much less care about a few for a long period of time because 5 more will pop up between the start of lunch and paying the bill.

Wao, I was going to post a short reply like "yeah, we're fucked" and ended up basically making a micro-wiki, sorry about that.