In this particular case, it's a bit more complicated.
I suspect the majority of 30x0 & 40x0 card sales continue to be for non-gaming or hybrid uses. I suspect that if pure gamers stopped buying them today for months, it wouldn't make much of a difference to their bottom line.
Until there's reasonable competition for training AI models at reasonable prices, people are going to continue buying their cards because it's the most cost-effective thing -- even at the outrageous prices.
I've met a ton of people that just don't care. The problem often isn't that they don't know companies are collecting a shit-ton of data. That's really not new or isolated to tech companies.
"If I get better ads and it saves me time, what do I care?"
"I'm getting something for free. What does it matter if they know?"
"It's too much work to avoid"
Ive used pihole and also just removed the network’s settings.
If you want to stream, i don’t know how useful any of these mitigations are. You’re giving them some data to subscribe and use. Even if you share accounts, who knows what the apps collect.
Exactly. The only other choices here are to buy used with a risk or wait longer to upgrade.