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> If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. People have been restating this tedious point for years. Do you really think if you pay a few buck

> If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. People have been restating this tedious point for years. Do you really think if you pay a few bucks a month for something like Netflix, they just decide "well we've already got this guy's 7.99, there's really no need to make any use of his data for additional gains".

winstonx 13y ago
You are pointing out that the converse of my statement isn't necessarily true. I agree with you: if you are paying for something, you might still be a product.
- jebus989 13y ago
  The statement itself isn't true from the outset, consider NPOs, OSS, Wikimedia projects... It's just a meaningless cliché.
  - winstonx 13y ago
    It's a truism, roughly equivalent to "there's no free lunch."