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At one point in time some TCL TV's were sold below or at the cost of manufacture. All the profit came from advertising and selling user behavioral data.
by RF_Savage 2y ago
At one point in time some TCL TV's were sold below or at the cost of manufacture. All the profit came from advertising and selling user behavioral data.
- shiroiushi 2y agoSounds like Windows computers: if you check the prices of a laptop that has a Linux or no-OS option, it'll be more expensive than the same laptop pre-loaded with Windows, because the factory Windows install is loaded with pre-installed 3rd-party crapware. The crapware companies pay MS to include their crapware (which is usually just teaser software to get users to buy the real thing) in the base OS image, and MS pays the PC makers (or gives them a big discount) to include Windows by default. And of course, Windows itself now has built-in ads and spyware too, so MS gets money from users using it.