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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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'Pay or Okay' explained: Why more and more websites make you pay for your privacy - noyb (noyb.eu)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -24 points 7 months ago (38 children)

I'm fine with this trend.

Servers aren't free and engineers aren't cheap. Online products need to make money in our world.

If you're not paying them they need something to sell to someone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, lemmy is insanely illogical on this topic. Services cost money to run, and the average user is not going to self host anytime in the foreseeable future. I have yet to hear anybody offer a vision of how things might reasonably work without ads OR subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (6 children)

The argument as far as I can tell is "FOSS means I don't have to pay anything because it doesn't cost anything! If they ask for donations they don't mean me"

Not a single one of them have a monthly contribution to their instance though. Guaran-fucking-tee it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Between this and the sheer amount of pro piracy, i'm honestly convinced people on Lemmy are cheap fucks.