• Helix 🧬@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Paying a monthly service fee to not have the company sell your data under the guise of “free” sounds quite reasonable.

    How do you know they don’t make you pay and still sell your data to get even more profit? Because no company who said they’re not evil was ever evil?

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        1 year ago

        This is unnecessarily defeatist.

        Why defeatist? I didn’t say it doesn’t matter. I think that many, if not most, corporations are evil and you shouldn’t trust a single word they say unless you are able to independently verify it.

        how do you know there isn’t a Lemmy instance running right now that’s collecting data with the intent to sell?

        I don’t, but I also don’t put a lot of sellable information on Lemmy, I rather link to my own sites, where some of them have a CC-BY-SA license. I know that everything I put on the internet is basically free game for evil capitalists.