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There are other monetization strategies. A popular one is to offer something for free and then use it to conduct mass surveillance and sell your customers to advertisers and governments.


Or the Patreon model, where people can be patrons of an artist whose work they appreciate!


Patreon is tantamount to panhandling. It's not much of a business model.


You know, a lot of the best artists of the Renaissance did pretty well "panhandling".




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