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Just don't collect data and who funds the development and infrastructure? If your answer is to start charging users, everybody would move to another messenger t
by bsksi 5y ago
Just don't collect data and who funds the development and infrastructure? If your answer is to start charging users, everybody would move to another messenger that is free, and the same problem will eventually arise.
- josephg 5y agoSignal seems to be getting along just fine, despite not collecting advertising data from users about our messaging habits. And if they want to run a free messaging service supported by advertising, there's plenty of ways to do that which are in compliance with the GDPR. For example, they could start by being really clear about what data is collected in their privacy policy and for what purposes. They could stop collecting data and just have worse advertising targeting. And so on. But instead of any of that, they're actively choosing to break the law and now crying foul when the government takes them to task over it. Boo hoo. European countries have the right to make laws protecting their own citizens' data. Facebook isn't a country unto itself.
- bsksi 5y agoSignal is getting funded by some crypto they rolled out, of which own the majority. I don't want that kind of crap included in the WhatsApp messenger.
- jeltz 5y agoMatrix funds themselves by selling hosted instances and customizations to for example government agrncies.