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You're getting their service. You want to use Facebook to talk to your family and keep up with your friends. You pay them in info, they pay you with the service

You're getting their service. You want to use Facebook to talk to your family and keep up with your friends. You pay them in info, they pay you with the service you're using. Same with every other site, vox, theverge, slashdot, etc... Sure there are a few companies you pay that also collect your data and I wish they didn't but even then they'd raise the price (maybe willing to pay more) if they didn't subside the service via your info

mym1990 5y ago
Not sure why the above got downvoted, it seems to echo the other sentiments. As a developer I have a hard time imagining building an application that doesn't use data to provide a higher level of experience in some way. Of course there is a very long rabbit hole on how data collected to create a novel experience then gets used in other ways to provide revenue. We just live in a world where applications are able to hide almost everything that is happening behind the scenes from the user, and advertising drives the majority of free applications, and this opens a gateway to major abuse...