Sync for Lemmy - Now Released on Play Store - eviltoast
  • sudo@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Asking for donations is, again, different than extortion. There’s a stark difference between a splash screen asking for funding to continue providing a free service and forcing ads and tracking in exchange for cash to operate on said FOSS platform.

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      1 year ago

      Who said anything about extortion? We’re talking about the service being free, just because you’re not the one paying for it doesn’t make it free.