> For instance: weather apps. Private sector ones are just a vector to track and sell your location data, and they rely on government data anyway. Or you do it

> For instance: weather apps. Private sector ones are just a vector to track and sell your location data, and they rely on government data anyway. Or you do it like we do here in Germany and take the dumbest route you can imagine. We had a very well working publicly funded weather app from DWD (Deutscher Wetter Dienst). The primarily purpose of this app was to warn from extreme weather conditions, but it also included an ad free (because publicly funded) and rather accurate forecast. Then a private entity sued claiming that the DWD app also providing weather information is unfair competition for private competitors. The won in court and now the publicly funded DWD app has a paywall for a previously free feature.