alt Hacker Newsand almost every paid service too. Paid or unpaid is not a useful characteristic for determining if something will sell my data.
and almost every paid service too. Paid or unpaid is not a useful characteristic for determining if something will sell my data.
Clearly nobody thinks “paid = never selling data” and I have a hard time believing you actually think their argument is that simple and singular.
If something is paid + open source then you have a good starting point incentive wise for the provider but also if they mess with things under the hood someone will inevitably call it out and you can act accordingly. You also now have more options - you can fork it yourself, someone else may fork it and you can jump ship, etc.