> There's a popular meme "If you're not paying, then you're the product". Popular and irritating since (a) it's incomplete (if you're paying, you're increasing

> There's a popular meme "If you're not paying, then you're the product". Popular and irritating since (a) it's incomplete (if you're paying, you're increasingly product, too, since companies aren't going to leave rifling through your data as a way of making money alone), and (b) it's become a kind of astroturf ad campaign for certain companies.