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I need a bot to post this. If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. -- blue_beetle
by earl 14y ago
I need a bot to post this.
If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer;
you're the product being sold. -- blue_beetle
- amirmc 14y agoI find this meme a little tiresome. Even if you are paying, it doesn't mean your info will not be used to make money some other way. I'm sure paid users of LinkedIn were also having their data sent back to the servers.
- TDL 14y agoIt lessens the chance of your data being used to make money, don't you think?
- ketralnis 14y agoNo, I don't think. If they're data-mining against, say, what conferences you attend to see what adverts to show you, I seriously doubt that they're differentiating paid and unpaid users.
- earl 14y agoI disagree. If someone is providing a free app, it's essentially a honeypot. For what? Who knows. Contrast with paid apps such as instagram or evernote or 37 signals: their business is to charge money. They have no interest in selling data because their customers won't like it, and you get probably an order of magnitude less money for data than by just charging for a product.
- cdcarter 14y agoFrom my understanding, this feature wasn't tied in to any sort of advertising or nefarious information gathering, it was just a poor/insecure implementation of a vaguely convenient idea.
- tedunangst 14y agoOh, shit, I don't want to be a product, so I'm going to stop using open source software pronto.