It took me a while of ruminating but I think I like this answer the best. Fundamentally here some people are upset that something they own would betray them.
Which is weird, because it implies anything you used but didn’t buy can and should betray you, and it’s your own fault. You should have been smarter. But it makes a bit of sense, for some odd reason I can’t quite make tangible. When the samsung TV I bought starts showing me ads, when my pricey cable or Hulu package interrupts for commercials, I feel a tinge of this.
So now I think I somewhat get the feeling. Thank you.
> because it implies anything you used but didn’t buy can and should betray you, and it’s your own fault
The contrapositive isn't automatically true. You can be upset when a cloud host or ISP violates your expectations, even though you don't own them. You can expect Apple to basically work in your interests even on their own servers, since you're paying them.
The ownership thing is more about the structure of society. If computing and communications technology is going to move us forward as a distributed democratic society, then those capabilities must remain distributed throughout the population rather than being controlled by a handful of centralized gatekeepers.
And yes, we've strayed quite far from this ideal. Most people have little control over what their mobile phone does. Still, there is a distinction between a device not having your desired functionality because the manufacturer didn't create it (or even disallowed others from creating it), and the manufacturer deliberately creating functionality that harms users.
Which is weird, because it implies anything you used but didn’t buy can and should betray you, and it’s your own fault. You should have been smarter. But it makes a bit of sense, for some odd reason I can’t quite make tangible. When the samsung TV I bought starts showing me ads, when my pricey cable or Hulu package interrupts for commercials, I feel a tinge of this.
So now I think I somewhat get the feeling. Thank you.