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Re:See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations by the_snooze on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:52PM (#18090915)
What assurances do you have that those paid services are actually respecting your privacy? It wasn’t that long ago that we found out that telecom companies were selling fine location data of all their paying customers.

The reality is that irresponsibility and disrespect for users are rampant in the tech world. That’s entirely companies’ doing.

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Re:See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations by ardy42 on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:54AM (#18091179)
> What assurances do you have that those paid services are actually respecting your privacy?

If you use a free service, you basically have assurances that they're not respecting your privacy. The probability of a paid service respecting your privacy is greater than zero, at least.

Also, not all paid services are created equal. You still have to do more due diligence past just throwing money at someone who'll take it.

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