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Can we have some clarification on what "Usage Data" the app collects and shares with advertisers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by kenbw2@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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What constitutes Usage Data. Is it sharing the posts I view, communities I subscribe to etc?

Does paying for a premium version stop this data being collected?

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[-] Kichae@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Funding from donations only gets you so far.

Then maybe that's as far as we should go?

Wikipedia makes it work.

[-] Neve8028@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

You'd be surprised to hear that wikipedia's main income is from their major benefactors like amazon, google, and other organizations. Donations from individual people make up a small portion of their income.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2020-annual-report/donors/#section-2

[-] golli@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another example would be lichess.org , which manages to compete with chess.com (a comercial site) and even pays the main developer a salary. All based purely on donations.

I think it can definitely work even in the long run.