“Companies don’t make you the product because you don’t pay — they make you the product because you can’t stop them“
wedge@lemmy.one 1 week ago
At this point if you don’t know you’re the product if the product is free, then chances are good you’re not going to know. Welcome to Costco, I love you.
zap12344@feddit.it 1 week ago
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because some of us let them.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Forget “if the product is free”. You are a product even if you pay subscriptions these days. They still track all your activity and then sell it or use it to train AI models that they will make you pay for again.
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How does Lemmy, Tor or Signal make us the product? Paid and unpaid software can fail to include a libre software license text file but these do not.