• HelloRoot@lemy.lol
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    6 days ago

    I know all that and none of it contradicts what I said.

    You remember when you could get a “free” phone with a subscription to a telecommunication service? It’s kind of like that. The phone is not really free. It is marketing bs. The price (and profit) is payed by you through the subscription.

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        6 days ago

        That’s what it seems like to me as well, and I just tried to be helpful and informative, not argue with them about how something that’s necessarily included by default is obviously contained in the price…

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          6 days ago

          Many ISPs don’t provide a publicly accessible IP, so for those, it’s not included and would cost extra (for me it’s $10/month IIRC. Fortunately, that’s not the norm, and that’s what I was getting at.