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If you do pay for a subscription, how can you be sure you're still not the product? What stops them from double dipping here?
by nemomarx 6mo ago
If you do pay for a subscription, how can you be sure you're still not the product? What stops them from double dipping here?
- loudmax 6mo agoIf you're paying for a subscription, the company might sell your data. If you're using a commercial service for free, they are certainly selling your data. Having said that, you're right to be suspicious of commercial services, even that you pay for. Someone can found a startup with a strong commitment to customer privacy and the best of intentions, but a few acquisitions or near bankruptcies later, those commitments will go out the window.
- nemomarx 6mo agoRelevant to this case, since they have a free version and premium one, they would probably just sell data from both sets of customers. It would be leaving money on the table otherwise, right? The small chance that they might go out of their way to not sell premium users data doesn't seem worth much.