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  "path": "/t/do-you-regularly-pay-for-any-privacy-enhancing-tools/37524?page=2#post_38",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T14:38:49.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I do pay for my email provider and support Signal with a monthly donation.\n\nI also run a lot of digital infrastructure myself on my own servers at home and I’m paying rent for some virtual private servers in a data center.\n\nFree services that are not supported by donations are always “bait”. At best, they exist to allow people to try a service and pay when they start relying on it; at worst, they turn the user into the product or combine both revenue models.\n\nThe question “should service X be free“ is a naive question. For any service somebody has to pay. The only question is: Who and how?",
  "title": "Do you regularly pay for any privacy-enhancing tools?"
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