Love this quote.
"There's something oddly comforting about the idea that "if you're not paying for the product, you're the product," namely, the corollary: "If you can afford to pay for a product, you won't be the product." But it's bullshit. Companies don't make you the product because you don't pay – they make you the product because you can't stop them."
Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar
@darrylxxx
This is true in both ways: Coming from an #opensource background, there's lots of developers providing their work for free without making you the product in any way. The other way around, most companies still rip you off your most personal data while having you already (expendively) paying for their products.
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