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    What is spying? (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 year ago by sag@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    Sorry to post my shitty neofetch to this community

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    [โ€“] walkercricket@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    (I know it's a late response but I only saw this post now and wanted to response to your particular comment) It was also the case for me because I usually didn't consume stuff from my age or from my native language but I still stopped using their services for the most part and deactivated any kind of telemetry from them for the remaining stuff I still use because despite all of that, I still don't want to support their business model or the companies themselves, as well as their constant push to consumerism through ads drowning. So privacy isn't the only reason to stop letting them listen to you I think.

    [โ€“] arbitrary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Question is, what business model would you support?

    Ads are the thing that pay for a lot of services most people use in daily lives. Imagine you needed a paid subscription for your email, your search engine, browser, social media account(s)...

    Lemmy is fun and all, but eventually it will need to expand and pay for server costs and so on. Yes, perhaps it will be carried by enthusiastic community members, but that's just a higher paid subscription for a few rather than many.

    I agree fully with you that the level of commercialisation is beyond crazy by now, and many developments do not have the user in mind. But that's not on the business model itself, but the companies' decisions.