It's the opposite. Limitations foster creativity. Those old computers and game consoles could do amazing things when people wanted to do something. Now you didn't have to think about what you're doing, just expect the user to have high end equipment and a super high speed Internet connection. It's the equivalent to saying you need a trophy truck in order to go over the road you just built because it's too shitty for a regular car to drive on.
So there's this company called flock safety. They provide license plate cameras for the majority of police departments in the US. They're talking about providing another service in order to do traffic analysis. It won't be too long until they start selling data to advertising companies. You would say, so what they can't know who I am based on a licence plate. Guess what? If you go to a gas station they could take a picture of your license plate and corelate it with your credit card in order to find your name. Imagine driving down the road and having targeted ads on a billboard.
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I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen. ( lemmy.world )
ads in your start menu ads on your desktop ads by the traffic light and ads by your next stop ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Seen this countless times