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Would you pay $5 on top of that ISP charge to Google, so that your search experience is ad-free? Would you pay $5 for fastmail.com's standard plan over gmail?
by ianmcgowan 7y ago
Would you pay $5 on top of that ISP charge to Google, so that your search experience is ad-free? Would you pay $5 for fastmail.com's standard plan over gmail?
- pmontra 7y ago$5 for a tracking free Google, including no Google ads on any site? Maybe. But then it would be $5 to any other tracking network and there will probably be some other tracking with no opt out. I'll be still running adblockers and privacy extensions, so paying is pointless.
- BoorishBears 7y agoHa, case in point. A technical person talking themselves out of a hypothetical situation where they pay, now imagine everyone else.
- pmontra 7y agoThe point is that I wouldn't be paying for a search service, I would be paying for not to be tracked, which is something I don't want to happen. It's so similar to paying for insurance against fires (think of gangster movies.) I don't like it.
- johnny22 7y agoI in fact do pay for fastmail.
- BoorishBears 7y agoYou and the vast minority of internet users.