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People pay $0 to Google/Meta/Twitter/TikTok for their base level offerings, and their privacy policy is valid to discuss and criticize. Does it somehow become l

• barbazoo 3y ago
  > People pay $0 to Google/Meta/Twitter/TikTok for their base level offerings There are costs other than direct monetary. We're still "paying" for it, just via ads, sponsored results, etc.
  • mac-attack 3y ago
    And I think that the inability to explicitly confirm relationships w/ Stripe et al are ways that users cannot determine whether they are paying w/ their data on top of their monthly costs.
• jjtheblunt 3y ago
  > People pay $0 to Google/Meta/Twitter/TikTok for their base level offerings people pay with wasted time and "cognitive load" because of the interstitial ads, and to decipher biases in presented data, though, too. (i see a sibling comment is similar, but didn't mention wasted time, so leaving this here)