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Until people start being willing to pay for services like Facebook or Twitter these kind of antics are inevitable. Unless you're paying you're the product.
by fidotron 14y ago
Until people start being willing to pay for services like Facebook or Twitter these kind of antics are inevitable.
Unless you're paying you're the product.
- mzuvella 14y agoThank you. Been saying that for years.
- icebraining 14y agoAre we the product of HN, then? Or if HN is "not the same", how are Identi.ca users its product? It's a nice soundbite, but it's oversimplified. There are many business models, and some don't involve neither direct payments nor ads/tracking, and others have ads even when you pay (e.g. Cable TV). It's just not that simple.
- krickle 14y agoYou know we are a highly technical audience and YC companies can advertise jobs, etc. here, right? I think that post is right, and things like cable TV or Hulu are just squeezing some money out of their product before they pass it on.
- icebraining 14y agoOK, how are we Wikipedia products? Advertising (users as products) and charging are just two characteristics that may appear in a business model together, or just one of them, or none, depending on its design. There's simply no rule that makes ¬paying ⇒ product an inevitability.
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- jfoster 14y agoIsn't it my attention that's the product?