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I will probably start paying for his page archival service within the next month. I'm more comfortable with it not only because of his track record so far, but
by quanticle 15y ago
I will probably start paying for his page archival service within the next month. I'm more comfortable with it not only because of his track record so far, but because I know I am his customer. If it were a free service, I'd be far more concerned about how many concessions he'd be willing to make for his real customers -- advertisers or metrics companies or who-knows.
As the old saying goes, "If you're not paying, you're not the customer. You're the product." Kudos to Pinboard for asking you to become a customer, rather than settle in and be sold like a product.
- joebadmo 15y agoCash isn't the only way to pay for a product. Notice in TFA he mentions ads as a perfectly legitimate source of income.
- canbeboth 15y agoIf you aren't paying and the company is trying to make money, then yes, someone else is probably paying for it. However, the implication does not go the other way. If you buy a newspaper, go to a movie, or watch cable TV, you are both a customer and a product.
- scq 15y agoThe old saying is not very old. Here's the original: http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046 http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...