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   WestphalDenn (westphaldenn@caneandable.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 15:21:50 JST WestphalDenn

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   • Robert Kingett

   @WeirdWriter Some arguments go way over the top. Some hold water. I think we all know people who do not pay for software out of principle. But we also know poor people who just can not afford to pay for something that would make their lifes better. Does that justify cracking software? Is it okay for developers to render their app unusable if you block ads? There are many more questions that are fair game to ask. And there will be different opinions which should respectfully discussed.

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     Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 15:21:51 JST Robert Kingett

     i’m going to write a longer blog post about this, but There’s an underlying current of capitalism brain within this article that manages to blame poor blind people. It’s just shy of calling those that expressed dissatisfaction entitled. Of course I think that independent developers should get compensated. This article though, goes beyond that premise. In short, this article unironically encapsulates the modern viewpoint of the blind community in one post and amplifies why our community really, really, needs to examine more intersectionality and especially class consciousness as opposed to just blindness issues. For me, it just reinforced the notion I have that blind people Across countries really don’t like poor blind people and has the constant common ableist mentality among our community that breadcrumbs are enough, and we shouldn’t ask for more or criticize anything because we get use out of the thing we’re criticizing. For example, I’m pretty sure that there wasn’t a horde of blind people emailing the developers 24 hours a day. I suspect the author forgot that timezones exist and that there are other blind people across the world that are emailing at different times of the day and night. I found myself rolling my eyes at the very surface level arguments this article was proposing as a reply to the backlash. Blind Users' Negative Attitudes Towards Paid Apps: Mindsets and the Struggles of Sustainable Development - Accessible Android https://accessibleandroid.com/blind-users-negative-attitudes-towards-paid-apps-mindsets-and-the-struggles-of-sustainable-development/ #Android #Blind

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