The vast majority of people have already activated Windows with an email address. I have several friends who have done so and for them this cost nothing.

Not something I’m willing to do, but it’s not a problem for most users who entered their email address long ago.

How do you figure?

It’s not just companies. Amazon started pushing ads to subscribers who pay for ad-free Prime video content. Some idiot here on Lemmy actually insisted it wasn’t an ad at all, but a “promotion.”

Companies are getting their customers to make infuriating, ridiculous corporate statements for them.

This week Amazon starting pushing ads to customers paying extra for ad-free Prime Video.

Corporations are now so powerful they don’t have to abide by reasonable norms, contracts, or laws any longer. Any fines are just a cost of doing business and are a small fraction of the profits they generate.

What are customers going to do anyway? Go to other businesses that are doing the exact same things on different days?