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If the choice was 500 items for free or pay, I just wouldn't use the service. The vast majority of people would rather have something at no monetary cost and pay by releasing their data for advert targeting.

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Don't you use Dropbox, Parse, Hootsuite, Mailchimp, CloudFlare or New Relic? It's a usual business model. Also, in my opinion, the vast majority of people would think "a free extension which one sees all of my movements on the internet says 'I'm gonna show you related advertising about your dragged items, hehe', what a horror story! I would rather pay 1$ or 5$ to it and feel safe myself.".

What we believe will end up doing is making Dragdis free forever, but supporting with ads or you will be able to pay a little premium and get Dragdis without the ads.

We want to give this to as much people as possible. That's why we went the ads way.

Thanks!

Of those I only use Dropbox, and only because I have to for work. If they offered 100GB free in exchange for analysing my files and serving relevant ads, I'd take that option. Advertising doesn't make me feel unsafe.

Whats App doesn't charge people for the first year of use, and then charge $1/year after that. The model can work for Dragdis possibly.

Yes, probably.

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