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   Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 (saraislet@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 05:31:19 JST Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥

   "If a product is free, then you're the product"

   Signal is free
   Linux is free
   Shutting up is free

   I'm starting to think this adage isn't accurate

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     Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 (saraislet@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 09:03:23 JST Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥

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     • Grampa

     @grampajoe it doesn't really matter what you call it, the point is that it isn't easy to distinguish Signal from Whatsapp based on superficial qualities like "is the user required to pay money?"

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 09:03:23 JST Rich Felker

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     • Grampa

     @saraislet @grampajoe General public is really bad at understanding the concept of critical examination of the motives of a party offering you something (free or for sale).

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     Grampa (grampajoe@jorts.horse)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 09:03:24 JST Grampa

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     @saraislet I wouldn't call those things products 🤷♂️

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 21:46:51 JST Niki Tonsky

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     @saraislet don’t you see annoying ads every time you run Signal?