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Well yeah but you guys are already used to paying data collection agencies for protection just so you can have some basic quality of privacy (like not getting sales calls or having your identity stolen).

I imagine that paying a tech giant for it is just the logical next step.

If Apple came out with a paid service that said “I’ll make sure those other companies don’t have your data” it would sell like hotcakes and nobody would think twice about the irony.

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tal@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I mean, it’s a service. You can pay for it with your money, or pay with your data. I’d prefer the former, myself. But either way, it’s not going to be free.

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- fxdave@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I would prefer paying for it with my taxes.
  
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Like, you want Instagram to get some kind of government subsidy? Why? And what about people who don’t want to use it? I mean, I don’t use Instagram.
    
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    fxdave@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I would imagine it as lemmy. It would be a free, ethical software which is indirectly funded by the government. Everybody uses facebook so that’s a good reason to turn it into a public property. We could make it without anti-features. Made for people, not for profit.
    
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- lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  By this same logic I take it you’d be ok with the day care saying “you can pay with your money or we can use your kid for manual labor”?
  
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