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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If they charged users any amount of money there wouldn't even be 400000 of them anymore.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes there'd be less, but the amount is purely speculative and you don't know anymore than I do.

Even if they have to go with the ad-supported model to maintain a large active userbase, that can easily be done without all the tracking. But again, they chose the shittiest option...there's really a pattern of them just being massive assholes. No matter what options they have, they'll apparently go for the shittiest one that screws over the users the most.