@Steve@lemmy.world

I am Steve

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Getting used to paying for internet services

We all know the saying of if you are not paying then you are the product, which again became relevant with how Reddit is dealing with its business model and trying to get everyone into their dataharvesting for more ads ecosystem. It is really sad how many of the worlds brightest techminds are building technologies that in the...

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I pay for:

  • eMail, Cloud storage, VPN (Proton)
  • Search (Kagi)
  • Anything that takes away advertisements if I do. I loathe ads.
Steve,
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They don’t need to take over all of them. A dozen or two of the largest subs would be plenty. Those with less than a couple hundred thousand subscribers, don’t really matter much.

Steve,
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I get it. If I was looking at that seating chart, I’d be thinking:
“Screw it. If I have to sit in the front, I’m going to sit in The front.”

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