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>3. All services that you don’t pay for you are the product.

I certainly don't feel like I am the product when I use Wikipedia.



As they advertise to you for their latest fundraiser…

Do you think large corporations will donate to support Chrome developers who get paid at the level of Google employees?

People aren’t willing to donate to support Firefox. It’s funding mostly comes from Google.


I mean promoting a fundraiser still doesn't seem to make me a product, and Wikipedia is still pretty solvent regardless. Another example might be Linux software repositories.




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