If-Something-is-Free-You-Are-the-Product
This is a truism of the internet age. The free services you use are harvesting you for data or selling you a pricy subscription you don’t need. You are the one being sold to advertisers.
References
- Megalag’s video on the Honey Browser extension is a good example of this.
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Social Media is Designed to Capture Our Attention
[[Twitter]]and Facebook are free because they capture our attention. I have spend hours on [[Twitter]], not doing anything but refreshing...