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madamelic on Feb 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Living without a SIM card

Nor the fact that they recommend using free services that monetize through ads, especially call and text providers.

Any free service should ring major, major alarms for any one advocating for privacy.

icebraining on Feb 9, 2020 [–]

On the other hand, any paid service must be tracking you, at least for billing purposes, whereas you might be able to reduce the tracking that free services do.

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