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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Relying on people's apathy is a business model with eras of success. Most people have never changed a setting other than dark mode, and even then that's probably your average superuser.

[โ€“] joel_feila 5 points 1 year ago

you are actually onto something. When Neeva went under, they were a paid search engine, they made a post explain why. The hardest part was getting people to pay a monthly sub, but getting them to change the settings