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Let me just spare a few dollars for privacy after paying for rent & groceries in my third world country currency.
What's the alternative? Lemmy is run by the community and pretty much a labour of love, but everything fro phones to search engines is made by companies, not charities.
You can rely on open source, volunteer products if you want affordable privacy. That'll deprive you of luxuries and it'll require you to put in more work yourself, but it's not the end of the world.
The alternative is putting pressure on companies to not succumb to greed and to go as far as enacting regulation to protect consumer interests. Paying some other companies to mitigate the harms of these companies while pretending that it's a sensible solution to everyone is not my idea of solving a problem. You're just sequestering privacy behind a paywall and pretending it's all fine. It's not; it's elitist and plays into the pay-for-privilege that toxic capitalism breeds. Because let's keep in mind that privacy--unlike the continuous stream of manufactured goods--is a choice that only needs to be made once.