grumpy_cat@thelemmy.club to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 9 hours agoWhat a joke apps are turning into.thelemmy.clubimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down16
arrow-up1120arrow-down1imageWhat a joke apps are turning into.thelemmy.clubgrumpy_cat@thelemmy.club to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squarebrawndo@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down1·7 hours agoJust because you pay a subscription to avoid ads does not mean your data is not still being harvested and sold. The big exception is now they have a payment method tied to a specific person not just an ad profile.
minus-square14th_cylon@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-26 hours agoThat has more to do with what apps you chose to use and give them your data. But people still don’t get the basic principle “if you don’t pay, you are not the customer, your are the merchandise being sold”.
minus-squaretimbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoYep. Like proton started out immediately as a secure alternative. I’d trust them. I imagine tuta and others as well. As for the rest (Google, meta, tiktok) I’d say there is zero chance your data would ever hope to never be harvested.
Just because you pay a subscription to avoid ads does not mean your data is not still being harvested and sold. The big exception is now they have a payment method tied to a specific person not just an ad profile.
That has more to do with what apps you chose to use and give them your data.
But people still don’t get the basic principle “if you don’t pay, you are not the customer, your are the merchandise being sold”.
Yep. Like proton started out immediately as a secure alternative. I’d trust them. I imagine tuta and others as well.
As for the rest (Google, meta, tiktok) I’d say there is zero chance your data would ever hope to never be harvested.