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While we are focusing on Facebook, Google etc. for breaking our privacy to extract data and pass it to third parties, we are willing to use Grammarly, CloudFlare and CrashPlan, pay for it and use it while hoping they will not work with security services. We need much more transparency it seems.

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There is this idea floating around that the corollary to "if you aren't paying, you're the product" to "if you are paying, you're not."

I wonder why so many people tacitly assume that paying for a service will make them forego mining your data and monetizing it. Very few people read the terms of service in its entirety regardless of whether they pay or not.

What we SHOULD do is standardize privacy policy clauses already.

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