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This just doesn't hold up in 2024. BMW charge you 60k for a vehicle and chuck a subscription on top. Apple, Google and Samsung charge between hundreds and thousands for their phones and advertise with their own agencies. Amazon forces paying customers to wade through bullshit products to finally buy the one they want, customers who bought prime and who didn't.
Everyone is the product even if you pay. Stop saying this please.
It’s not an either or. It’s _if it’s free, you’re the product _. That’s it. It’s not saying anything about if you pay for it.
So it's misdirection. It should be "You're the product". Free or not doesn't matter.
Sorry, but that's irrelevant to "if it's free..." implication. Those are just unrelated ways companies made suckers out of their customers.