YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR
I'm so p*ed off with the performance of my free e-mail provider that I had the idea to set up a site in the cloud to offer the most commonly used services,
- When we use so-called free services in the internet, the deal is: we pay with our user profile and meta-data instead of money.
The service provider sells this data, and we have no control of where this data goes and how it is used. - Additionally, we accept bugging advertisement (e.g. in our mail box, and when using the services through a web browser).
The service provider earns money with this, too.
I'm so p*ed off with the performance of my free e-mail provider that I had the idea to set up a site in the cloud to offer the most commonly used services,
- respecting privacy (no selling of meta-data) & ad-free, but
- with a voluntary fee instead, where the amount of the fee is completely up to the user's free decision,
- with Open Source software, Open Protocols & Open Data Formats
- 1 $/€/£ per month (for data-center+maintainance+taxes) should be sufficient, and
- from >100E3 users I'd add a slider to let the users decide how much would go to the used software & Open Source/Data-formats in general.
- How to deal with such robber barons? Any suggestions?