This article disappoints me because it seems to boil down to:
BAD: making money by selling software
GOOD: making money by selling ads
So how do you make money selling ads? By getting a bunch of users and auctioning off their private information.
I wish more people in the position to fund software development would support a model where your users are your customers and not just eyeballs to be sold to the highest bidder.
I wish more people in the position to fund software development would support a model where your users are your customers and not just eyeballs to be sold to the highest bidder.