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many times I’ve seen a new post and said "I’d buy a pile of that as stickers and put them up all over ‘amazonville’ (nobody calls it that- the chunk of Seattle where scamazon raized the old, gloriously grungy bars, affordable apartments and light industrial buildings, replacing it all with techbro filled, sterile glass towers and impossibly priced luxury condos)
if there weren’t constant corposecurity wandering about, posters would be perfect. but there are plenty of light poles adorned with bright, colorful show posters in the surrounding neighborhoods, just begging to have some FOSS war posters tacked up on them
remember, it’s not just about making up the difference per user in advertising, it’s about getting and keeping as many people into their ecosystem as possible.
then they make some cash from selling data, and having more data to scrape to train their models and such. proton isnt making any off your data
it’d be great to be able to easily compare cost and expense, but companies obscure so much in the backend. rental car companies buy discounted in bulk, then sell the cars tens of thousands of miles later at a profit, and that’s before any income from rental