Re:How mobile apps illegally share your personal data
by dizhn on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:20AM
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I am really glad the era of the infuriating parrot line of "If you're not paying for it, you're the product" is coming to an end.
People try to justify everything they do and this is one the worst of them. Some even seemed to use this as an argument against open source which is usually free.
Along the same lines there is "What is your monetization plan?".
The next one I wish would go away is the "but they have a privacy policy" line of thinking. Like that means anything.
Re:How mobile apps illegally share your personal data
by pixl97 on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:24AM
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"If you're paying for it, you're still the product" is the era we are in now.
You can't even buy your way out of it like people suggest. The fact that you want to do that signals you have money and makes your data even more valuable. Even companies that do not do this currently, assuming they are publicly traded, with eventual succumb. They just need a bad quarter or a few people needing to boost their metrics and they'll add the new revenue source.