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But it's not a very good rhetorical question. Money can be made in something that costs zero dollars by harvesting user data and utilizing it correctly, for exa
by hhjinks 5y ago
But it's not a very good rhetorical question. Money can be made in something that costs zero dollars by harvesting user data and utilizing it correctly, for example to sell ad space, or sell directly to other interested parties. It is literally the strategy of some of the biggest tech companies in the world.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y agoThe question evoked exactly the points I wanted to evoke. Not bad for a rhetorical question. Harvesting user data. Sell ad space. Sell user data to interested parties. This as a "strategy". Biggest "tech" companies. Thank you. Is this practice really best-described as "software". Is the (free) software merely a Trojan Horse for something else. The commenter could have written "What do the most ambitious do in the US? Go into harvesting personal data from people's use of computers and online ad sales, or Wall Street." This would have been more accurate in terms of describing the money-making aspect.
- hhjinks 5y agoOops, I interpreted it the other way around, that you can't make money off something that is free because you don't take any money for it. My bad.