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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services (www.engadget.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which today though does not mean that if you pay for something like this that you are not also the product. Double-dipping for companies, so to say.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Hence caveat emptor. Research your company. I can say that the online services I pay for don't gather my data and don't sell it either. And they hold no leverage over me, the second they do any of those things I would drop them like a sack of potatoes.