> I've struggled to get well paid professionals to cough up the €4. There is some mental block beyond 'free', yet these same people decry WA's privacy changes.

> I've struggled to get well paid professionals to cough up the €4. There is some mental block beyond 'free', yet these same people decry WA's privacy changes. For some people the issue is not about the money but about giving it to a vendor-locked platform and have access to the app depend on it. I happily did donations to open-source projects such as MyExpenses [1] and Netguard [2] to support the projects and unlock features. And can still use these now that I went for a mobile with Android but without Google Services/GCM. [1] https://www.myexpenses.mobi/ https://www.myexpenses.mobi/ [2] https://netguard.me/ https://netguard.me/