And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
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Great, so now we get to pay for the privilege of having our data harvested by 814 "partners"
Remember: "if you aren't paying for the product then you are the product" is no longer accurate, you're the product regardless of paying or not now.
Paying for a service is generally going to result in less of a push to monetize the data though, especially if it's a smaller provider or a private company.
We can't just give up and stick with ad supported services, but then not want to see ads... Ad-supported services are always going to have to try monetize you somehow, whereas paid services don't always need to.
But most will anyway. Why leave extra money sitting on the table?