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> if you don't pay for the product - you ARE the product I paid full price for my XBox 360, within the first year or so of its release. It had a simple and cle
by tsuraan 13y ago
> if you don't pay for the product - you ARE the product
I paid full price for my XBox 360, within the first year or so of its release. It had a simple and clean interface, pretty much enough to play games and search for/demo/sometimes buy new games. Since then, the UI has gone through various terrible iterations, including full-screen ads for Bing and Zune, and embedded ads for other (non-MS, even non-XBox) products within the main landing page. Even if you do pay for the product, you probably are the product.
- garrettgrimsley 13y agoSame deal with T-Mobile, they have opt-out marketing that you can't disable through the text messaging.
- garrettgrimsley 13y agoEven more upsetting are all of the marketing emails that I receive in my student inbox.
- faddotio 13y agoExactly right, and people here seem to ignore that in favor of convenient ideological screeds. Look at the EULA of what you pay for. It's amazing how little you're entitled to. Even if you paid for it~~~~~