Samsung: buy device, we collect your data
Apple: buy device, we collect your data
Google: buy device, we collect your data
Tesla: buy a car, we collect your data
Uber: pay for delivery, we collect your data
Amazon: pay for subscription, buy items, sell items, we collect your data.
Netflix: literally the only way to interact with us is to pay a subscription, we collect your data.
YouTube: pay more than every other streaming service to get music, video and shorts with no ads, we are still collecting your data.
“If it’s free, you’re the product” has never been and will never be true. You’re the product so long as advertising exists, paying for shit doesn’t change a thing. They don’t care you bought it once because they want you to buy again and again and only from them. It’s a statement to make people think they deserve the treatment they’re getting and its gaslighting.
Like Google is going to do that. The entire reason for gmails existence is to gather data from its users.
It’s ridiculous how user data has become such a big commodity.
You mean to say that if a service or product is free, we are the product?
No, if a company has shareholders then you are the product
Companies exist only to make profits for the investors.
The users getting any value is just a happy little accident.
and not just that, but to make as much money in as short a time as possible. Fuck the future, short term goals are all that matter.
Samsung: buy device, we collect your data Apple: buy device, we collect your data Google: buy device, we collect your data Tesla: buy a car, we collect your data Uber: pay for delivery, we collect your data Amazon: pay for subscription, buy items, sell items, we collect your data. Netflix: literally the only way to interact with us is to pay a subscription, we collect your data. YouTube: pay more than every other streaming service to get music, video and shorts with no ads, we are still collecting your data.
“If it’s free, you’re the product” has never been and will never be true. You’re the product so long as advertising exists, paying for shit doesn’t change a thing. They don’t care you bought it once because they want you to buy again and again and only from them. It’s a statement to make people think they deserve the treatment they’re getting and its gaslighting.