I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      Very, very basic userspace level software methods. Methods that do not even need to go as deep as Facebook/Google/Apple or others.

      Spying on people is easier than you think. Create fear and citizens will comply with just about anything for their “safety”. But in China’s case, the two Opium Wars lost against the 8 Nation Alliance is far too traumatic, and that serves as the fuel for current and old people to never see their children in the same world. The “Century of Humiliation” is a phrase easy to notice, and they are quite keen on regaining their global financial position they had before Western Industrial Revolution and Britain’s “laissez faire” colonialism happened.