• ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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    13 hours ago

    I don’t know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money

    • Kissaki@feddit.org
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      12 hours ago

      Telegram is profitable through semi-pushing some cryptocurrency and selling premium. Various free-to-play games are profitable through the sale of optional content.

      There are alternatives in offering delayed or optional monetary costs.