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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by Jagat on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:19PM (#22140309)
They used to charge $1 per year after the first year
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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by lotsofpulp on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:49PM (#22140640)
I know they said that, but I don't know anyone who actually had to pay it.
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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by bromuro on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:00PM (#22141326)
I paid it! I hoped for that model to win :(
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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by lotsofpulp on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:04PM (#22141361)
Me too, they even advertised they charge $1 so that they will never have to sell or compromise your privacy.

Of course, that promise is worth less than $20B as we found out.

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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by Jagat on Sunday January 26, 2020 @11:42AM (#22152978)
Everyone knew that was going away the moment they sold the app that had 1 billion users for 19 billion dollars.

The founders were being disingenuous when they said the data wouldn't be used for ads.

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