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The guide has had many iterations, and you are right that at one point, they were entirely removed. I've ended up informing rather than hiding, as most of these names are already known, whereas not many people are aware of Spotify's actions (for example). Proton is a little more complicated - I personally won't use them, but I can see the nuance where some people might.
I don't get any funding. I am a developer myself, so I do 80% of the work. The rest is self-funded and will continue for the foreseeable future.
i don't understand what motivates you to do so much unpaid labor to market/advertise/recommend commercial products and services which you yourself would not even use.
You're kind of described almost the entirety of FOSS. It only exists because there are talented people who make shit and give it away for free. I'm glad they exist.
yeah - but it's not hard to understand the motivation to do unpaid labor to develop (and promote) FOSS - it's the promotion of proprietary things (many if not most of which i infer OP doesn't even use themself) which baffles me.
if OP truly isn't getting paid by any of these companies for making posts like this then they're leaving money on the table, because many of the companies behind the proprietary products and services they're recommending do spend a substantial amount on marketing.