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IF YOU'RE NOT PAYING FOR IT YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.
by humanspecies 14y ago
IF YOU'RE NOT PAYING FOR IT YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.
- OGinparadise 14y agoIF YOU'RE NOT PAYING FOR IT YOU ARE THE PRODUCT. But Google is different. I swear. They don't even care about Wall Street. They said so.
- streptomycin 14y agoA company gets X in revenue from a product. Whether that X comes from ad revenue or subscription fees seems immaterial. Either way, Google Reader would have been a rounding error in the grand scheme of things at Google.
- icebraining 14y agoYou don't pay for Hacker News.
- lmm 14y agoThe HN readership is one of many things PG sells to companies in return for equity in them. This should have always been clear.
- icebraining 14y agoYes, my point is that being "the product" is not necessarily bad or wrong, and more importantly, that screaming that cliche on HN is very inconsistent.