> Takes like "you are the product" are very much inside tech opinions that do not translate to the rest of the world. I disagree with this. It's actually a pre

> Takes like "you are the product" are very much inside tech opinions that do not translate to the rest of the world. I disagree with this. It's actually a pretty common understanding in UK culture at least; I've seen elderly photographers, young painters and one of my nephews use the phrase, recently. Aside from the pithy "take", people absolutely do, instinctively, understand that if they aren't paying for something, it is them being sold in some way, to advertisers. Even if they assume incorrectly that it's somewhat more blatant than it actually is -- people think that big firms are actually selling their data en masse rather than selling gated access to it. (I explain to people that you can really only sell a massive file of your customer data once; that's not where the big money is.)