@tesseract from a market perspective, it's an okay trade to pay for having privacy, as you still use their services. I also donated this month to my instance because those servers don't get their uptime from the Holly Spirit. But this should come with an audit to check if they are really respecting the user privacy of the paying customers. Or better, some regulatory to figure out if the market price for privacy is justified or is it too big, compared to the amount of data created in a given period of time by the user and sold to the advertisers.

Not to mention, they should overhaul their data collection practices so that you only have your data collected while using the service. That means getting away with practices such as shadow profiles or pixel tracking.

Or they should just use other methods to make money with their service altogether.

@throws_lemy