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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by oh_sigh on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:31AM (#25818516)
The alternative to capitalistic forces showing you ads personalized based on your conversation isn't to get the same app with no ads at all - it is either get the same app just with non-personalized ads, or no app at all.
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by remexre on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:11AM (#25818735)
well... signal doesn't have ads...
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by nine_k on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:19AM (#25818784)
Why, outright paying for products and services is pretty capitalistic! Works well in many cases.
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by esyir on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:20AM (#25819477)
That's a fine argument and all, but practically speaking, we see that as driven content for free outcompetes.
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Re:Why Jabber reigns across the Russian cybercrime underground by vlovich123 on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:10AM (#25869542)
Disallowing such content then might be the right solution if you view the societal trade offs as not being worth the increased economic activity.
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