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> The pay version is about $7.50 USD a month, which is not cost prohibitive if you care about it.

It’s possible for someone to care about privacy but not have the means to do anything about it.

The fact that $7.50 a month _is_ cost prohibitive for some people is the point of the article.

GP's point is that it may be cost prohibitive to some but it's too cheap to be a marker of class in developed countries. It'd be like saying a Netflix subscription is a marker of class.

I think if you added up all software you might need as paid, from MS Word to a VPN, cloud storage ala dropbox, password manager, imagine google searxh was a oaid service instead, etc. you would arrive at circa $100.

No, I think you overestimate the financial resources of about half of the people in the US. Being able to afford $90/year for each web service is definitely a marker of class.

That's even more true globally.

And yes, Netflix is hard on some people too. I know plenty of people not in the software engineer class who (illegally) share Netflix subscriptions or don't have them at all.

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