Around 20 years ago I started our cities first house doctor computer service. People were in an extreme state of paranoia even letting me use their PC, thinking I was going to steal all their banking information and do all kinds of evil stuff.
Now people are like hey smiling graphic on the screen and this thing says it’s going to help me okay I’ll just give it access to everything
You are talking a lot of philosophical stuff, but the reality was when you wanted to get the low level hardware, there was very little documentation. Even banks of the technical documents had giant blanks saying these are a bunch of video registers and interrupts, basically good luck lol
I don’t sense that you have any actual experience programming on that platform, because if you did you’d know what I’m saying
Oh my beloved C64! I made my first “real” games with it, my buddies were artistic and made the music, sprites, animations, etc. I programmed the tools to make them!
The worst aspect of the C64 was that the hardware was a mostly undocumented mystery zone. As an early teen, I had the C64 programmer’s reference manual checked out of our library for 2 years!!! Doing any kind of advanced graphics meat PEEKing and POKEing random addresses and registers and interrupts to see what would happen. A nightmare! My hat’s off to all the demo scene folks that did ludicrous stuff
edit: My first released game was “Studmaster” replete with every horrible thing your mind is currently imaging lmao. I’m not proud of this now but it was pretty wild for two 14 year old kids in the 80’s to make a small-scale text/graphic adventure game and publish it
Skittles. It’s the perfect example of a corporate advertising campaign that has been run out in the open in front of people, and no one can see it. From like “day one” on Reddit.
Burger King has a huge presence, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, so many others.
Kagi has been running a stealth spam campaign here on Lemmy for over a year.