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The title is quite misleading, the privacy problem is not related with the website being free or not.
by p4bl0 6y ago
The title is quite misleading, the privacy problem is not related with the website being free or not.
- onion2k 6y agoTechnically you're right. You can run a website that gives users a service at no cost without violating privacy. Pragmatically, however, it's very rare and 'free' correlates very closely with privacy violating business models. Talking about how free services violate privacy is fine when 99% of those services do exactly that. Those businesses shouldn't get a free ride on harvesting and selling personal information just because a handful of other businesses manage to be better.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoThere's plenty of services that try and operate under the 'freemium' model, but they're often pretty restrictive, and website hosting is often bottom of the barrel scraping lvl when it comes to that.
- richardwhiuk 6y agoJust because you are paying doesn't mean you aren't also giving up your privacy as well.
- p4bl0 6y agoYour argument, even if considered valid only cover one part of the problem with the title. Many paid services also violate users privacy. So no, the correlation of "free" and "violates privacy" is not that strong.
- mcherm 6y agoThe title is slightly misleading. The article claims the privacy issues are related to the Discus service being free for the websites that use it.
- p4bl0 6y agoDisqus could be free and not behave this way. Disqus could be a paid for service and still behave this way.
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