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I am happily paying money for email hosting so that my emails are not farmed for advertising. Have been with privacy respecting paid providers since 2015

I will happily pay money for instant messaging if the app respects my privacy and does not log metadata. I paid for Threema licenses, although I don't use the messenger on a daily basis.

I will happily pay money for ad-free privacy-respecting search results. I was using DuckDuckGo for years now, but just found out about kagi.com and am testing them now. Paying a small amount of money (over lightning) for unbiased well-indexed search results sounds well worth it!

All of these services cost a lot of money to host for the providers, and you know the saying: either you are paying for the product or you are the product.

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Systemling32 1y ago

The problem I see with instant messengers like Signal is the network effect: If Signal were to charge a monthly/per usage fee, I would be willing to pay that, but many people would not. With the walled garden ecosystem that are most messengers nowadays, paid messengers will have a much harder time gaining users and suffer the network effect.

If more open protocols like matrix were common, perhaps I could use a paid server that in exchange does not log my metadata. However I would be chatting mainly with people using free servers and these servers could be logging a lot of the metadata (basically everything except for my connection details such as client used and IP).