Gokul Das on Nostr: Have you heard of the term #CyberMugging? It denotes the strategy used by companies ...
Have you heard of the term #CyberMugging? It denotes the strategy used by companies to force you to pay a #subscription by locking out the devices you bought from them (printer, heated seats, etc) using software and the internet and thus creating an artificial scarcity. In other words, digital #RentSeeking on steroids.
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