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This soundbite really needs to disappear, it's catchy but mostly incorrect and unfortunately sets a wrong impression. You can pay and still be the product. It
by politelemon 2y ago
This soundbite really needs to disappear, it's catchy but mostly incorrect and unfortunately sets a wrong impression.
You can pay and still be the product. It can be free and you aren't necessarily a product of any kind. Examples aren't hard to find.
- axblount 2y agoCould be shortened to, "You are the product." There's no commodity quite as valuable as human time and attention.
- voisin 2y ago> There's no commodity quite as valuable as human time and attention. Only if the human has money to spend or excess time to provide labour. Across western societies, it would appear most people are stressed to their financial limits (I would expect significantly declining marginal revenue from further advertising as the consumer discretionary wallet is fixed or shrinking) and stressed to their time limits with little free time.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoThey still have a vote
- croes 2y ago>Examples aren't hard to find. Can you name an example for an service that is free without using the user data to generate revenue?
- theshaper 2y agoWikipedia, Archive.org, etc. Maybe "generating revenue" doesn't apply exactly, but...
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